Ensure pending merges are updated on segment flushes

Due to the default of `async_merge` to `true` we never run
the merge policy on a segment flush which prevented the
pending merges from being updated and that caused actual
pending merges not to contribute to the merge decision.

This commit also removes the `index.async.merge` setting is actually
misleading since we take care of merges not being excecuted on the
indexing threads  on a different level (the merge scheduler) since 1.1.

This commit also adds an additional check when to run a refresh
since soely relying on the dirty flag might leave merges un-refreshed
which can cause search slowdowns and higher memory consumption.

Closes #5779
[TEST] Improve performance of MockBigArray MockPageRecycler