That should be the in-memory representation of your searchable data. The more data you have, the bigger that will be. Yes segment merging does take up some of that. To accommodate the increase, you can either increase your memory or add more nodes and shard out your indexes to distribute your data (and memory usage) across multiple nodes.
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