Tony, What you are seeing with the shard recovery is normal - but doesn't mean it couldn't use more improvement in the future. For now you can throttle the recovery using a combination of settings (but cannot 100% avoid it).
Just FYI, there is a reason hashing cannot be done (for now) and this is discussed in this thread (look where Zachary describes the segment divergence scenario to understand more): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/elasticsearch/9uF-a5vqfkQ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/6f4989c6-4042-44e3-a0ed-25546d6cfa19%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
