Due to some emergency maintenance I needed to run delete on a large number of documents in a 200Gb index.
The problem is that it's taking an inordinately long amount of time (2+ hours so far and counting) and is steadily eating up disk space - presumably up to 2x index size which is getting awfully close to the wire on this machine. Is that inevitable? Is there any way to speed up the process or use less space? Maybe do an optimize with a different number of maxSegments? I suspect not but I thought it was worth asking.
