Sounds like perhaps you are getting confused by this... https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4661
...if that is the situation then it's not a bug you need to worry about, just a confusion in how the ReplicaitonHandler reports it's stats -- the newer UI makes it more clear what numbers you are looking at. If that doesn't looke like the problem you are seeing, then more detail on how to reproduce what you are seeing would be helpful (replicaiton configs, logs from amster & slave, etc...) -Hoss