The most likely cause is that you were indexing when the nodes were down and/or have not issued a hard commit. If you stop indexing _and_ issue a hard commit (openSearcher=true or false doesn't matter), then the nodes should come back up without having to replicate the index.
This might help: http://lucidworks.com/blog/understanding-transaction-logs-softcommit-and-commit-in-sorlcloud/ Best, Erick On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 9:07 PM, Paddy Krishnamoorthy <kpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > We are running a solr 4.10.2 cluster with dozens of nodes. When ever we > restart the cluster we see that 2-3 nodes goes in to a fullCopy mode, which > takes for ever to recover. Because of the recovery our entire cluster runs > very slow and eventually becomes unresponsive. > > Any thoughts? > > > Thanks > Paddy > -- > Did you breathe today? > Learn from here: http://us.artofliving.org/index.html