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by naikrovek 2940 days ago
Dang. Afaict, you guys are the exceptions to the rule.

I guess you folks gave it enough hardware to run properly. From what I'm reading that's what's missing in a lot of failing installations. It seems particularly resource hungry.

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Code repository management is a central part of every company. I don't see any problem in throwing sufficient hardware at such a crucial piece of software.

Relevant: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/requirements.html#hardwar...

Thank you. I wonder why the advise a minimum of 4GB of RAM and offer a build for Raspberry Pi.

Changing that URL from "/ee/" to "/ce/" gives the same RAM requirements.

I would be guessing someone at gitlab was playing around with his/her Raspberry. But yeah, I would advise against running anything important on a Raspberry ;).
Actually, one of the things we're liking about Gitlab is how lightweight it is.

...of course, it replaced Upsource for us, and Upsource is incredibly resource hungry, so maybe we just have a very, very skewed frame of reference. :)

It's currently running as an omnibus installation on a KVM node. 8GB of memory and 4 vCPU (E3-1230v6). Anything more than 4GB of memory and a couple cores appears to be sufficient for our use.