Namespace has exceeded its compute minutes quota

GitLab CI/CD
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Problem to solve

This issue might be related to the CI CD outage yesterday. I am getting the following error

namespace has exceeded its compute minutes quota. Buy additional compute minutes, or no new jobs or pipelines in its projects will run.

Some of my jobs ran for a while and never finished which I believe is what caused this issue and ate up all my minutes. For the time, I know gitlab team is working on doing a bulk reset of the compute minutes of affected customers.

2024-09-10: Uptick in coordinator related errors (#18533) · Issues · GitLab.com / GitLab Infrastructure Team / Production · GitLab.

I am just looking for suggestions on how to overcome this limit while that issue is being worked on. Should I use my own runner? Do I need to create a ticket with gitlab to get this minutes reset? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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