A self-hosted GitLab customer is seeking advice on how to optimize their server environment to handle a 10x increase in commit and push frequency from AI agents.

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        "author": "VulgarMadman1",
        "excerpt": "If you’re not seeing any problems (slowness when looking at MRs, project repos, push/pull operations, etc), then you’re probably fine. If you’re worried, then rate limits will help prevent users/agents from accidentally overloading your instance. https://docs.gitlab.com/rate_limits/git/",
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        "excerpt": "In the GitLab dashboard look at your “active user” count. That’s the number of users, service accounts, and bots.\n\n Then use the GitLab Reference architecture to match that number.\n\n If you want to be real safe, you can use some tools to look at the requests per second to GitLab (RPS), and then pick the reference architecture that matches that.\n\n If you’re not enterprise of a big business, just gr",
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        "excerpt": "I’d measure requests per second and queueing separately for Git HTTP, API, Sidekiq, and runners before resizing, since ten small pushes can add transaction overhead without meaning ten times the storage load.",
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        "excerpt": "I'm experimenting with agents on my own self-hosted GitLab too, so I get the worry. The rate limiting and RPS stuff others mentioned makes sense, that's worth doing. But if it turns out the bottleneck isn't the git layer, the other place I'd check is the CI side, since every push kicks off a pipeline and if that builds a Docker image the cost can stack up.\n\n One thing I'd try is splitting the cach",
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