As a followup - seems there is a major issue in indices created from a
mapping template. I installed a fresh copy of ES 1.4.2 standalone on my
laptop and replicated the issue I had on my ES 1.4.1 cluster --
disappearing indices on cluster restart.
https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearc
I have a 3 node ES 1.4.1 cluster that runs on CentOS6, Oracle JDK 1.7.0_67.
Heap was set to 20G of the 32G on those boxes, with mlockall set.
Configuration is currently set more towards bulk loading more than it is
searching. Purpose of the ES cluster was for time-series indexing of
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