This is not a new issue, we see this every few months. In the past I think this was solved by restarting gerrit. I compared our gerrit to other installations: https://go-review.googlesource.com/ https://review.opendev.org/ Both reloads in about 1 second. Our gerrit takes 10-15 seconds. Go gerrit is using: 3.3.1-812-g388176bbb4 Openstack is using: 3.2.6-28-g4a9ffec296-dirty We use: 2.16.23 Looking in https://www.gerritcodereview.com/ current version is 3.3.1. Looks like we are using an old version. Nir