I'm working on some git automation systems and the system seems to get easily swamped from git fetches.
Scenario 6 CPUs, lots of ram: I run two git fetches in one shell. These are very large repositories, comparable to https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/Webkit. In another, logged in as root, there will be long stalls during which no terminal input is processed (Ctrl-C has no effect). When the terminal is not stalled, commands which spawn processes like pkill take a long time. I realize that git can stress a system (atop shows lots of red on the disk, reads max out), but this behavior seems worse than desktop counterparts with fewer resources. I wonder if this is an effect of the hypervisor. Is there any way for me to keep the second terminal responsive? nice doesn't help much. Regards, Isaac
