Blocking a project causing high load

Steps

1. Start a rails console issuing the command sudo gitlab-rails console.

2. Set the project in question to private. For example, my-namespace/my-group/my-project would be:

   project = Project.find_by_full_path('my-namespace/my-group/my-project')
   project.visibility_level = Gitlab::VisibilityLevel::PRIVATE
   project.save

3. If that fails for some reason, navigate to the project via an admin account and disable that. For example, the URL for the example above would be:

   https://gitlab.com/my-namespace/my-group/my-project/settings/edit

   Under Permissions, click Expand, and set Project visibility from Public to Private.

4. For good measure, you may also want to toggle the Repository button from on to off.

5. To avoid having these settings changed by the project owner, you may also want to block the owner of the project. For example:

   project.owner.block!