Fast Search Broke - Drive full "stuck in a loop"

Hello,
We have SharePoint 2010 with FAST Search enabled. Content crawls completing without issue, but the index data drive is filling up and then "dumping" over and over again. Users are now starting to notice that content
is not showing up. This all just starting happeining about month ago. All components appeared to up and running. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you,
Jim

We've added more disk space to the index server (Primary and Secondary) and now it has calmed down. Now it appears that we are missing items in our search results. Running indexerifo -a status still shows about 40K items not indexed.
That number is falling slowly but users are starting to complain that items recently uploaded are not searchable even after an incremental crawl. Some items show up and some don't. We've opened a ticket with MS and are looking
at it now.

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