Hi, I was wrong. You can activate the cluster with not full baseline topology.
Looks like you that your node that stopped during checkpoint and it is a reason of long recovery of the binary memory that takes a lot of time. Here is a ticket that should optimize this process: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-10749 BR, Andrei -- Sent from: http://apache-ignite-users.70518.x6.nabble.com/