# ES 2.4.0 shard initialization taking more time

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-2-4-0-shard-initialization-taking-more-time/77716>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 7, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-2-4-0-shard-initialization-taking-more-time/77716 "2017-03-07T18:40:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Srivastavark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Srivastavark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Srivastavark)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-2-4-0-shard-initialization-taking-more-time/77716/1 "2017-03-07T18:40:30Z")

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Hello Experts,

Elasticsearch version: 2.4.0  
Plugins installed: [KOPF, AWS-cloud . s3cmd]  
JVM version: 1.8  
OS version: Ubuntu

New stage environment have 3 indexes with total size around 600 MB. All node restarted after modification in yml file (added path.repo). Now the problem is after 12 hr cluster health is RED and shard still in initialization state.

Cluster - 1 Master, 2 Master-data, 2 data  
All master-data and data node and 64GB RAM and 1.29 TB space . Master node have 32 GB and 660 GB space.  
Heap - not more than half of total available memory.

Yml config - all default except below

[cluster.name](http://cluster.name): myname  
[node.name](http://node.name): prodnode1  
node.master: true  
node.data: true  
path.data: /data/elasticsearch  
path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch  
path.repo: /data/datas3/elastic-search-backup  
bootstrap.memory\_lock: true  
network.host: hostIP  
discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["master-only", "master-data", "master-data"]  
discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes: 2

\_recovery - returns blank response  
\_tasks - many response like below

CXveFzvHS-GMv-h-uf4RVA:2083" : {  
"node" : "CXveFzvHS-GMv-h-uf4RVA",  
"id" : 2083,  
"type" : "netty",  
"action" : "internal:discovery/zen/publish",  
"start\_time\_in\_millis" : 1488870873680,  
"running\_time\_in\_nanos" : 40744147056568  
}

Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance

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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:** [April 4, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-2-4-0-shard-initialization-taking-more-time/77716/2 "2017-04-04T18:40:29Z")

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