Workspace creation fails with OOMKilled error during Git clone for large repositories

MR: Increase workspace cloner memory limit (!189670 - merged) • Chad Woolley • 18.0

Description

Creating a workspace from large repositories (such as https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab) currently fails due to the gl-project-cloner init container running out of memory (OOMKilled). This appears to be caused by the size of the repository and the resources required during cloning.

The proposed solution is to increase the memory allocation for the cloning init container to prevent failures.

Acceptance Criteria

• Increase the memory allocation for the Git clone init container
• Validate that workspaces can be successfully created from large repositories without OOMKilled errors

References

• Slack discussion: https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/C03KE0L9NC9/p1745915416033669