When loading up erases/reaps using aae_fold, it is is possible to create an excessively large mailbox queue on the respective riak_kv_eraser or riak_kv_reaper process. The larger the process mailbox queue, the slow the process will consume from the queue. Potentially huge amounts of memory can be consumed (which works counter to the point of having such queue processes which overflow to disk).

The range repl query avoids this problem by batching up requests, and sending them via a call. The same solution should be used for reaps and erases.