@rough-minister-58256: fyi: i made some changes to the

heavy_hitter

method to stabilize the tasks it chooses to show: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/compare/master...twitter:stuhood/heavy-hitters-debug#diff-43a9096a476afb7dee1a86d57f7f1176R908 : basically, don't recurse from a parent to a dependency unless it has been running at least half as long as the parent