Just wanted to add that we&#x27;re working hard to bring down the request time in GitLab 8.x. We&#x27;re not there yet but already optimized a lot of SQL queries and this release added support for better comment caching to prevent markdown parsing. Edit: we had to revert the comment caching at the last minute due to a bug but we&#x27;re working on that, many other improvements and performance monitoring with InFluxDB and Grafana