Why Self-Hosted GitLab Runners Are Slow and How to Fix Them?
The performance of self-hosted GitLab runners can be hindered by factors such as inadequate hardware resources, network bottlenecks, misconfigurations, inefficient build scripts, and lack of parallelization. Addressing these issues by upgrading hardware, optimizing network infrastructure, correcting configurations, refactoring scripts, and enabling parallelization can significantly improve runner performance.