### Summary I am running gitlab-runner for projects on gitlab.com and it takes way too long between checks for new jobs ### Steps to reproduce Excellent question. * Create a project on gitlab.com. * Run a runner for it on your own system (mine is installed on macOS via brew). * Make a trivial pipeline * Observe it takes several minutes from when you push changes to when the runner starts building them ### What is the current *bug* behavior? Several minutes between runner checks ### What is the expected *correct* behavior? A few seconds between runner checks ### Relevant logs and/or screenshots ``` # ps -ajxwww | grep gitlab-runner 1 1402 1402 1402 ? -1 Ssl 0 0:06 /usr/lib/gitlab-runner/gitlab-runner run --working-directory /home/gitlab-runner --config /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml --service gitlab-runner --syslog --user gitlab-runner ``` ``` # grep interval /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml check_interval = 10 ``` ``` # grep "Checking for jobs" /var/log/syslog Aug 29 03:09:27 gitlab-ci-dispatch gitlab-runner[1402]: Checking for jobs... received Aug 29 03:09:27 gitlab-ci-dispatch gitlab-runner[1402]: Checking for jobs... received Aug 29 03:14:55 gitlab-ci-dispatch gitlab-runner[1402]: Checking for jobs... received Aug 29 03:14:55 gitlab-ci-dispatch gitlab-runner[1402]: Checking for jobs... received Aug 29 03:19:34 gitlab-ci-dispatch gitlab-runner[1402]: Checking for jobs... received Aug 29 03:19:34 gitlab-ci-dispatch gitlab-runner[1402]: Checking for jobs... received Aug 29 03:24:40 gitlab-ci-dispatch gitlab-runner[1402]: Checking for jobs... received Aug 29 03:24:40 gitlab-ci-dispatch gitlab-runner[1402]: Checking for jobs... received Aug 29 03:30:32 gitlab-ci-dispatch gitlab-runner[1402]: Checking for jobs... received Aug 29 03:30:32 gitlab-ci-dispatch gitlab-runner[1402]: Checking for jobs... received Aug 29 03:36:49 gitlab-ci-dispatch gitlab-runner[1402]: Checking for jobs... received Aug 29 03:36:49 gitlab-ci-dispatch gitlab-runner[1402]: Checking for jobs... received ``` Note the 5+ minute intervals between checks even though check_interval is set to 10s (and I have multiple workers configured, so it should be even shorter than that). ### Output of checks This bug happens on GitLab.com