If you are careful and measure you can get consistent performance. We do lots of measurement of GC pauses for etcd and have it in a really tight band by ensurin

If you are careful and measure you can get consistent performance. We do lots of measurement of GC pauses for etcd and have it in a really tight band by ensuring we don't needlessly generate garbage in the hot path. Here is our measurement dashboard for a functional test cluster: http://dash.etcd.io/dashboard/db/functional-tests?from=now-24h&to=now http://dash.etcd.io/dashboard/db/functional-tests?from=now-2...