Why am I seeing a higher skipped/deferred in my search head cluster after upgrading to 9.x ?

[rphillips_splk]

I recently upgraded my search head cluster to 9.x and since then my skipped/deferred searches have sky rocketed.

index=_internal source=*scheduler.log  
status=* | timechart span=60s count by status

[rphillips_splk]

Please see this knowledge article for details on the known issue and fix/workaround:
https://splunk.my.site.com/customer/s/article/High-Skipped-Search-Ratio-after-upgrading-to-9-x