It was interesting to read this post. I had similar issue on Solr v4.2.1. The nature of our document is that it has huge multiValued fields and we were able to knock off out server in about 30muns We then found a bug "Lucene-4995" which was causing all the problem. Applying the patch has helped a lot. Not sure related but you might want to check that out. Thanks.
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