# Could the unavailability of replicas be the reason for slow shard recovery/relocation processes?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-the-unavailability-of-replicas-be-the-reason-for-slow-shard-recovery-relocation-processes/189838>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 10, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-the-unavailability-of-replicas-be-the-reason-for-slow-shard-recovery-relocation-processes/189838 "2019-07-10T17:14:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![praveengadugin1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@praveengadugin1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/praveengadugin1)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-the-unavailability-of-replicas-be-the-reason-for-slow-shard-recovery-relocation-processes/189838/1 "2019-07-10T17:14:09Z")

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Our recovery/relocating process for a particular shard is really really slow. It was 20 percent 2 days before and 60 percent now. It was not this slow before. We have removed replica from that index and only have primary shards. Could that be the reason for this excruciatingly slow recovery?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-the-unavailability-of-replicas-be-the-reason-for-slow-shard-recovery-relocation-processes/189838/2 "2019-08-07T17:14:15Z")

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Closed on August 7, 2019, 5:14pm UTC

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