bash hangs, apparantly in connection with large outputs

[Bernhard Kornberger]

I use the bash in a gnome-terminal window with several open tabs. It happens frequently (once in a work day) that a bash tab simply stops to respond, i.e., it takes no key-strokes anymore. As other tabs continue to work I guess its not the fault of gnome-terminal but the bash hangs. I can observe this behavior on two PCs. I am a developer and the programs I start in the bash print lots of debug-output, so there may be a connection with large outputs.

bash:
  Installiert: 4.3-11ubuntu1
  Installationskandidat: 4.3-11ubuntu1
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 4.3-11ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Description: Ubuntu 14.10
Release: 14.10