Gitlab 10.7 Released

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Post by jbergstroem » Sun, Apr 22, 2018, 4:48 PM UTC

Re: Gitlab 10.7 Released

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Post by dijit » Sun, Apr 22, 2018, 5:27 PM UTC

I know its not as sexy as new features, but I really wish gitlab took a look at performance. Currently its sitting at 9GiB of Memory on my dedicated server box for basically no users. I tried it on smaller instances but it was so painfully slow I ended up getting a cheap dedicated server from Hetzner.

Re: Gitlab 10.7 Released

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Post by sondr3 » Sun, Apr 22, 2018, 5:34 PM UTC

dijit wrote: post #2

I know its not as sexy as new features, but I really wish gitlab took a look at performance. Currently its sitting at 9GiB of Memory on my dedicated server box for basically no users. I tried it on smaller instances but it was so painfully slow I ended up getting a cheap dedicated server from Hetzner.

Which is why I personally use Gitea, which is super light and performs very well. But it only has a fraction of the features of GitLab so it's not an apples to apples comparison, but my personal projects and my friends it works just fine. I combine it with Drone for testing and it totally suits my needs, and I host everything myself on a $5 VPS.

Re: Gitlab 10.7 Released

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Post by trashcan » Sun, Apr 22, 2018, 5:34 PM UTC

dijit wrote: post #2

I know its not as sexy as new features, but I really wish gitlab took a look at performance. Currently its sitting at 9GiB of Memory on my dedicated server box for basically no users. I tried it on smaller instances but it was so painfully slow I ended up getting a cheap dedicated server from Hetzner.

Agreed. I really would prefer to use Gitlab, but at the moment I'm using Gogs on my Linode instance because it runs smoothly in <1GB of RAM.

Re: Gitlab 10.7 Released

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Post by boudin » Sun, Apr 22, 2018, 5:39 PM UTC

dijit wrote: post #2

I know its not as sexy as new features, but I really wish gitlab took a look at performance. Currently its sitting at 9GiB of Memory on my dedicated server box for basically no users. I tried it on smaller instances but it was so painfully slow I ended up getting a cheap dedicated server from Hetzner.

I switch to gogs (and now gitea) for this reason 2 years ago.

It does much less in term of features though

Re: Gitlab 10.7 Released

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Post by wjkohnen » Sun, Apr 22, 2018, 5:41 PM UTC

sondr3 wrote: post #3

dijit wrote: post #2

I know its not as sexy as new features, but I really wish gitlab took a look at performance. Currently its sitting at 9GiB of Memory on my dedicated server box for basically no users. I tried it on smaller instances but it was so painfully slow I ended up getting a cheap dedicated server from Hetzner.

Which is why I personally use Gitea, which is super light and performs very well. But it only has a fraction of the features of GitLab so it's not an apples to apples comparison, but my personal projects and my friends it works just fine. I combine it with Drone for testing and it totally suits my needs, and I host everything myself on a $5 VPS.

We use GitLab on prem at work because we want the features. For private stuff or super small teams I'd chose Gitea as well. And/or GitLab.com.

GitLab's performance is a major pain point for us. We throw an absurd amount of hardware at it for mid sized teams.

Re: Gitlab 10.7 Released

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Post by scottfr » Sun, Apr 22, 2018, 5:43 PM UTC

dijit wrote: post #2

I know its not as sexy as new features, but I really wish gitlab took a look at performance. Currently its sitting at 9GiB of Memory on my dedicated server box for basically no users. I tried it on smaller instances but it was so painfully slow I ended up getting a cheap dedicated server from Hetzner.

They have a dedicated section about performance improvements in the release notes.

It links to a list of 53 commits from this release targeting performance:

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/merge_requests?scope=...

Re: Gitlab 10.7 Released

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Post by transmit101 » Sun, Apr 22, 2018, 5:53 PM UTC

I implemented the HTTPS-only Pages feature in this release.

I just wanted to say that GitLab is a great project to contribute to, with a very friendly and professional community! Definitely recommend to anybody interested in contributing to a project themselves.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/16273

[2] https://about.gitlab.com/contributing/

Re: Gitlab 10.7 Released

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Post by nwatson » Sun, Apr 22, 2018, 5:57 PM UTC

sondr3 wrote: post #3

dijit wrote: post #2

I know its not as sexy as new features, but I really wish gitlab took a look at performance. Currently its sitting at 9GiB of Memory on my dedicated server box for basically no users. I tried it on smaller instances but it was so painfully slow I ended up getting a cheap dedicated server from Hetzner.

Which is why I personally use Gitea, which is super light and performs very well. But it only has a fraction of the features of GitLab so it's not an apples to apples comparison, but my personal projects and my friends it works just fine. I combine it with Drone for testing and it totally suits my needs, and I host everything myself on a $5 VPS.

Bitbucket. It's cheap.

Re: Gitlab 10.7 Released

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Post by sytse » Sun, Apr 22, 2018, 6:10 PM UTC

transmit101 wrote: post #8

I implemented the HTTPS-only Pages feature in this release. I just wanted to say that GitLab is a great project to contribute to, with a very friendly and professional community! Definitely recommend to anybody interested in contributing to a project themselves. [1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/16273 [2] https://about.gitlab.com/contributing/

Thanks for contributing Rob, and we're very glad to hear it was a good experience.