I have this docker-compose.yml:
version: "3.1"
services:
memcached:
image: memcached:alpine
container_name: universal-memcached2
redis:
image: redis:alpine
container_name: universal-redis2
mariadb:
image: mariadb:10.4
container_name: universal-mariadb2
working_dir: /application
volumes:
- .:/application
- "../data/db:/var/lib/mysql" # skasowac
environment:
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=Haslo
- MYSQL_DATABASE=sample
- MYSQL_USER=user
- MYSQL_PASSWORD=Haslo
ports:
- "8083:3306"
webserver:
image: nginx:alpine
container_name: universal-webserver2
working_dir: /application
volumes:
- .:/application
- ./phpdocker/nginx/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
ports:
- "8080:80"
php-fpm:
build: phpdocker/php-fpm
container_name: universal-php-fpm2
working_dir: /application
volumes:
- .:/application
- ./phpdocker/php-fpm/php-ini-overrides.ini:/etc/php/7.3/fpm/conf.d/99-overrides.ini
volumes:
generated:
var:
static:
phpmyadmin:
image: phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
links:
- mariadb
environment:
PMA_HOST: mariadb
PMA_PORT: 3306
ports:
- '8081:80'
When I run my newest project in symfony 4 on it, it works very slowly… 🙁
I have new MacOs and Docker Desktop.
I’m currently learning the Symfony and Laravel framework, but this is very slow for Docker. It is not even working on it.
How can I repair it?
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Answers
As a matter of fact, Docker needs a plain Linux kernel to run. Unfortunately, Mac OS and Windows cannot provide this. Therefore, there is a client on Mac OS to run Docker. In addition to this, there is an abstraction layer between Mac OS kernel and applications (Docker containers) and the filesystems are not the same. Because of that, Docker runs on Mac OS slowly. You are not able to run the Docker on Mac OS like on Linux.
If I need to give some instances about real use-cases. I have the same machine. So, I use Symfony 4 on Docker v18 on Mac OS Mojave. This is my Symfony total execution time on Docker. (Obviously, it depends on your frontend and database queries but I try to enlighten you for main logic.)
As long as I use Symfony without Docker, the following is my total execution time.
Whereas, we could do some improvements to get better workspace. For example, you can use volumes like this,
One option would be using http://docker-sync.io/ But you will not get the same performance as you would in a Linux-based machine.
As mentioned in other answers, the issue comes down to the way Docker interacts with the file system on OSX.
I found a great article on how to make things a lot faster on OSX:
https://vivait.co.uk/labs/docker-for-mac-performance-using-nfs
From the article, the real solution is to change the file system to use NFS, but as I know nothing about Docker (it was set up for me at work), I opted to use an option available in newer versions of Docker
I added
:delegated
to all of the options undervolumes
indocker-compose.yml
. After restarting my containers, every was nearly twice as fast as before. Not as fast as native, but fast enough.Example from article:
The NFS example is quite long and requires basically copying half of the article so I won’t add it in, but this
:delegated
solution is good place to start.Use Mutagen to sync volumes
It’s a known issue that Docker for Mac is slow when using shared volumes containing a big amount of files, see https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/77.
So, some workarounds came like
:cached
and docker-sync. However it’s not totally satisfactory because it’s still slow compared to native (Linux) and docker-sync consumes a lot of resources when syncing.That being said, there is a good alternative, not to say perfect, which is Mutagen. It’s almost as fast as native shared volumes with Linux!
A benchmark is available:
Source: article on Medium
I created a full example for a Symfony project to show how to use it, but it can be used for any type of project in any language.
I recommend using Parallels (the best virtualisation for macOS). Then:
If you use VSCode, you can install SSH extension and it is fast enough for editing files. You can also access your website on macOS via virtual machine’s IP address.
This is know. Issue with docker and the Mac… they are not best buddies, but they can play with each other.
Add
:cached
to the volumes and the slowness will be manageable.To anyone still having this issue, I have read a post on gitHub by StefanPrintezis here.
Basically, when you’re not debugging, turn off xDebug.
It worked like a charm for me.
Configuration : Macbook Pro 2018, PHPStorm 2021.3.1, Docker Desktop 4.5.0 (74594) with 2 CPU / 4GB RAM. Using default volume config.
Using VirtioFS significantly improves Docker performance on macOS.
macOS 12.5 and Docker Desktop 4.15
Docker Desktop Preferences > General
macOS 12.3 (Intel) or 12.2 (Apple M1) and Docker Desktop 4.6, you can enable the experimental feature :
Speed boost achievement unlocked on Docker Desktop 4.6 for Mac – March 16 2022
On a MacBook Pro 2019, 2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7, even simple commands such as
docker ps
execute in less than a second. It used to take 3 seconds before.I had the same issue, where requests could take upwards of 20 seconds!
The fix was to disable "Use the new Virtualization framework"
I also tried the "VirtioFS" experimental option which made it faster but it would constantly lock up. Disabling them both fixed all issues.