diff --git a/src/main/java/net/spy/memcached/CacheManager.java b/src/main/java/net/spy/memcached/CacheManager.java
index 318793f81..6ae61d439 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/spy/memcached/CacheManager.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/spy/memcached/CacheManager.java
@@ -398,6 +398,17 @@ public void run() {
             waitBeforeRetryMonitorCheck(1000L - elapsed);
           }
         }
+
+        // Handling cacheList changes to a MemcachedConnection resulting
+        // from the processing of a CacheMonitor's Watch event.
+        for (ArcusClient ac : getAC()) {
+          try {
+            ac.getMemcachedConnection().handleCacheNodesChange();
+          } catch (IOException e) {
+            getLogger().error("Cache List update error in ArcusClient {}, exception = {}",
+                    ac.getName(), e.getCause());
+          }
+        }
       }
     }
     getLogger().info("Close cache manager.");
@@ -482,6 +493,10 @@ public void commandCacheListChange(List<String> children) {
       MemcachedConnection conn = ac.getMemcachedConnection();
       conn.setCacheNodesChange(addrs);
     }
+
+    synchronized (this) {
+      notifyAll(); // awake CacheManager Thread.
+    }
   }
 
   /* ENABLE_MIGRATION if */
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/spy/memcached/MemcachedConnection.java b/src/main/java/net/spy/memcached/MemcachedConnection.java
index 0ef7282a1..55db5d7db 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/spy/memcached/MemcachedConnection.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/spy/memcached/MemcachedConnection.java
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 import java.util.SortedMap;
 import java.util.TreeMap;
 import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentLinkedQueue;
+import java.util.concurrent.CopyOnWriteArrayList;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
 
@@ -142,7 +143,7 @@ public MemcachedConnection(String name, ConnectionFactory f,
     timeoutRatioThreshold = f.getTimeoutRatioThreshold();
     timeoutDurationThreshold = f.getTimeoutDurationThreshold();
     selector = Selector.open();
-    List<MemcachedNode> connections = new ArrayList<MemcachedNode>(a.size());
+    List<MemcachedNode> connections = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<MemcachedNode>();
     for (SocketAddress sa : a) {
       connections.add(makeMemcachedNode(connName, sa));
     }
@@ -304,9 +305,6 @@ public void handleIO() throws IOException {
     }
     /* ENABLE_REPLICATION end */
 
-    // Deal with the memcached server group that's been added by CacheManager.
-    handleCacheNodesChange();
-
     if (!reconnectQueue.isEmpty()) {
       attemptReconnects();
     }