Did it literally crash, or just hang? One joyful misfeature of LevelDB (which forms the basis of Chrome's implementation) is that when a particular write rate i

Did it literally crash, or just hang? One joyful misfeature of LevelDB (which forms the basis of Chrome's implementation) is that when a particular write rate is exceeded for a sustained period, LevelDB will fall behind merging old segments and block hard, often for minutes on spinning rust, until it catches up. But hey, who cares about by-design black swan latency characteristics for real world use cases when the published benchmarks look so great.