<!--IssueSummary start--> <details> <summary> Everyone can contribute. [Help move this issue forward](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/developer-relations/contributor-success/community-contributors-workflows/#contributor-links) while earning points, leveling up and collecting rewards. </summary> - [Close this issue](https://contributors.gitlab.com/manage-issue?action=close&projectId=278964&issueIid=17524) </details> <!--IssueSummary end--> ### Description We have several big repositories that get quite a lot of commits during the day, since the housekeeping lock the repository and are cpu intensive they can cause disruptions ### Proposal Run the housekeeping tasks with cron so the user could schedule them to runn in out-of-office hours. There already is gitlab-ce#15021 which is similar however instead of disabling housekeeping for the project I'd rather just have it run when I don't need the repo.