https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/29667
We need to do something about this very soon, so please keep an eye on that issue.
We're going to be doing some more work on settings pages, hopefully in 9.2 and make them a lot better.
I will subscribe to those issues and hopefully it will improve. As of now, though, that is a complete non-starter for us.
Oftentimes a week of work that's bundled in our develop->master RC merge will have more than 100 commits. Gitlab _only_ displays 100, and doesn't let you see the rest; since I like to skim down the commit messages to make release notes for the RC, this is pretty inconvenient.
If we have it profiled we can give it the right priority.
@zegerjan made a ticket for it, but it's already been closed by Stan because it is being tracked by some general performance ticket. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/29861