Answering my own question, since there was double maint...
Looks like round 1 took 2 hours or more, but round 2 only took 30-45 minutes. Still significantly longer than less-filled servers, which usually are 3-10 minutes.
To me it looks like their database design doesn't scale up well.
I know many of you are going to dislike what I'm about to say, but it is likely that if you all stopped using alts, especially flat fillers, the maintenance times will stay shorter.



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