Took about 5 minutes to drop to tty, another 5 to login, took another couple minutes to ps aux | grep atom
and then I pkill atom which restored my machine to working order.
when I saw the ps aux | grep atom there were at least 100 git-project cache workers......
After killing all of atom, atom would not open. had to re-install.
Computer (i7 with 16GB ram and 16GB swap) ran out of memory trying to index the git projects.
I had depth set to 5, and had:
Took about 5 minutes to drop to tty, another 5 to login, took another couple minutes to
ps aux | grep atom
and then Ipkill atom
which restored my machine to working order.when I saw the
ps aux | grep atom
there were at least 100 git-project cache workers......After killing all of atom, atom would not open. had to re-install.