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Gitlab is still super slow even compared to young projects like gogs. I know many ppl who shied away for gitlab due to its slowness.

If I was them, I would stop all copycat 'me too' features like ci/pages ect and put the resources to making it faster. This is a sign that their features are pritorized by business ppl who want to put features on their slides .

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What is the latest version you have tried?

We've made a lot of changes to GitLab in the last number of releases that make GitLab a whole lot faster [0], but we recognize that the performance of GitLab.com can still improve quite a bit.

For low-memory machines, we do recommend people to use Gogs.

[0]: https://about.gitlab.com/2016/02/22/gitlab-8-5-released/

Wow nice improvements, i hadn't noticed this. Gitlab.com seems a lot snappier.

Good to hear! Let us know what we can improve.

This is the trouble for me using Gitlab.com. Feels like there is a lot of 'n+1' going on in the background. I'm sure there aren't, but it feels like a Rails app that is suffering from that.

Other than that it's great. I've moved nearly everything over from GitHub

There are certainly a lot of queries we have and will optimize, to see the work see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42

BTW to prevent simple N+1 queries we use the Bullet gem https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/7ff974e38e24a9b...

Really interesting, thanks. I will look through the work you're doing

Same experience here. I use Gitlab for my personal projects and Github for my open-source projects. Hopefully the speed improves soon.

We're on it in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42

Sorry that we're not there yet.

I just tried browsing some of the online repos, and I was impressed with how bad the loading delays were.

gogs was designed from the start to be fast. Nothing but a rewrite would make GitLab as fast as gogs for basic stuff on small self-hosted servers. For basic uses, the resources required for the platform of GitLab (rails) is greater than the resources required to use all of gogs.

Gogs will always use less memory and cpu. We are working to make GitLab page loads very fast.

I fear in most cases an impressive feature list wins over speed.

Speed is an impressive feature and we're working hard to improve it.

One of the nice things about Phabricator is its performance. It originated at Facebook, and they are using massive, monolithic monorepos.

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