Here's the explanation (probably not very useful for users):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21697107/timeout-on-https-requests-to-gitlab-6-5
To me that looks like some kind of a flaw in design. I also figured
out that the server constantly keeps complaining about excessive
memory consumption.
I added some comments to the issue tracker of an already opened ticket:
https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/3882
Mojca
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