Hey folks, Not a bug, but something I'd definitely like to understand. I've noticed that when I restart nodes, even with shard allocation disabled, the amount of time it takes to initialize all shards again seems to be somehow related to the amount of time since the last restart. The more time…

Restarts take forever, even with shard allocation disabled, when node hasn't been restarted recently

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