gtlab slow?

[Heiko Schocher]

Hello Harald,

Am 10.12.2019 um 18:18 schrieb Harald Seiler:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> On Tue, 2019-12-10 at 05:48 -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I sometimes find that gitlab.denx.de is very slow. Just now is is
>> worse than usual - it has taken almost 10 minutes to push a branch and
>> still not finished. I am getting a 503 error on the web site.
>>
>> Any ideas?
> 
> Yes, we noticed that as well but so far have failed to find out the
> exact reason.  Server-side we see horrible load spikes while the CPU is
> essentially in idle and no notable IO is happening.  I personally
> believe it might have something to do with the virtualization technology
> but we don't have a certain answer yet.
> 
> I added Claudius in CC, he might know more ...

May dummy thought ... could the gitlab runners be the reason? If we
push to a u-boot repo on gitlab, we automatically start now a gitlab
runner... so if there "a lot of" pushs may a lot of jobs are pending?

bye,
Heiko
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