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RPC Count: RPCs during recovery for 1 backup is almost exactly 5 * segment count ignoring RPCs for client tablet map refreshes (80 segments here so 400 RPCs).
After commit e427b featuring prefetching during iteration during recoverSegment and crc32. The new checksumming is fast enough that it is on for all experiments above except the one case that is noted.
MasterServer::recoverSegment Performance
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