On: Gitlab 5.0 released, Gitolite now gone

[_JamesA_]

This is great news as Gitolite was the one thing that prevented me from giving Gitlab a try.

What are the minimum requirements for a light Gitlab installation? I can't find any recommendations on the site.

The thought of deploying Gitlab on a Linode 512 for $20 a month with virtually unlimited private repositories is very exciting.

[picomancer → _JamesA_]

I'm running Gitlab 4.1 with more-or-less the default installation instructions and very light usage currently. I'll upgrade to 5.0 in the near future. Here's what I'm seeing:

    $ top
      PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S  %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
     1616 gitlab    20   0 1851m 108m 7112 S   0.0 10.9   7:46.35 ruby1.9.1
     1405 gitlab    20   0  967m  99m 7044 S   0.0 10.0   0:26.63 ruby1.9.1
     1667 gitlab    20   0  970m  98m 2596 S   0.0  9.9   0:01.36 ruby1.9.1
     1670 gitlab    20   0  970m  97m 2488 S   0.0  9.9   0:00.77 ruby1.9.1

    $ ps aux | grep [g]itlab
    USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
    gitlab    1405  0.0 10.0 990904 101508 ?       Sl   Mar19   0:26 unicorn_rails master -c /home/gitlab/gitlab/config/unicorn.rb -E production
    gitlab    1616  0.1 10.9 1896392 110880 ?      Sl   Mar19   7:46 sidekiq 2.6.4 gitlab [0 of 25 busy]
    gitlab    1667  0.0  9.9 994156 100412 ?       Sl   Mar19   0:01 unicorn_rails worker[0] -c /home/gitlab/gitlab/config/unicorn.rb -E production
    gitlab    1670  0.0  9.9 994204 100284 ?       Sl   Mar19   0:00 unicorn_rails worker[1] -c /home/gitlab/gitlab/config/unicorn.rb -E production

This doesn't include Redis or database.

It seems like that's far too high. Why do you need 400MB of runtime data (and 5GB of allocation) in order to generate these relatively simple web pages?

Ruby is bloated.

[sytse → _JamesA_]

We don't have minimum requirements. We run GitLab.com with 3000+ users on a moderate (c1.medium, 1.7 GiB) instance. I think you will do fine with GitLab 5.0 and the 512 Linode. Might have to tune the default parameters a bit to have less processes running.

[randx → sytse]

In order to run GitLab w/o any tweaks you need 1GB Linode. You can start it on 512 but you need to setup unicorn to use only 1 worker and you need at least 200MB of swap

[nonpme → randx]

Is 1GB really requred for personal use? I thought about buying 256/512 VPS exclusively for GitLab, don't you think it will be enough for personal projects?

Maybe someone who has the knowledge can write tutorial about configuring GL to run on average VPS?

[sytse → nonpme]

A post about tuning GitLab for low memory consumption would be very useful indeed.

[nonpme → sytse]

Maybe someone will write one someday ;).

And, as I have the chance, I want to thank you and whole GitLab team for a really great work! I'm using GL localy and I'm very pleased with it.

[sytse → nonpme]

Thanks nonpme, good to hear you are enjoying GitLab.