Gagan Singh's picture

Hi,

I am using VM for gitlab 12.1. This morning Users started facing issue communicating with gitlab VM. I had a look at the resource consumption which showed memory was fully consumed. I switched off the VM and increased memory to 4GB from 512MB. After the restart i noticed gitlab and associated services are not able to start. I have tried manually >service gitlab start and can see processes starting but within few seconds all processes get killed. How can i start gitlab again? 

I do have a backup on Amazon and have successfully restored that into another VM. Gitlab worked for sometime and then again 4GB memory got consumed. I tried restarting 2nd VM too but end result was same. 

Any pointers would be helpful. 

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OnePressTech's picture

Let me know what you find...I'm about to deploy Gitlab as well.

Looking through the Gitlab issue tracker there appear to be two recent performance issues:

https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/7326

https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/7129

Cheers,

Tim (Managing Director - OnePressTech)

Jeremy Davis's picture

You'll find all the logs in /var/log and see what you can see. IIRC GitLab is a (Ruby-on-)Rails app which I'd expect would have it's own log (although not 100% sure what it'd be called and don't currently have an instance handy). Plus all the usual logs like daemon.log etc. Also sometimes when starting the service fails there will be a message that may give a clue (or at least something to google...)

Gagan Singh's picture

A space was missing between parameter and value in gitlab.yml

Since then its stable

 

OnePressTech's picture

For the record...which was the gitlab.yml entry that was the troublemaker (for future reference)?

 

Cheers,

Tim (Managing Director - OnePressTech)

OnePressTech's picture

Curious as to how that would affect performance erratically...you'd figure it would be all or nothing.

You may consider setting your host to your primary domain name. Although a lot of implementations consider www.x.com and x.com to be synonymous they are not. The former is a 2nd level root domain subdomain and the latter is a 1st level root domain subdomain (though some people may consider 'www' to be a special case). Food for thought.

Cheers,

Tim (Managing Director - OnePressTech)

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