Issue Status as of November 26th, 2013
ISSUE SUMMARY
Cache results of dbhash command for config collections.
USER IMPACT
When multiple mongos instances issue the dbhash command simultaneously, config database can be overloaded and affect performance.
It is present in versions of MongoDB prior to and including v2.4.6.
SOLUTION
Cache dbhash commands on the server.
WORKAROUNDS
This is a performance improvement only.
PATCHES
Production release v2.4.7 contains the fix for this issue, and production release v2.6.0 will contain the fix as well.
Original Description
This will mitigate having lots of mongos doing hashes at the same time.