Level 3
Are you using Windows? Vagrant on windows is very slow
Mar 2, 2015
8
Level 3
Long boot-time with Homestead in Laravel 5
I'm currently making a new laravel-app and use homestead as my local server. However, the application boot time seems really off. Even when I just had a normal, clean Laravel-5 installation it wasn't that much better. I am always between 1-2s for a single site load. Doing a few ajax-requests here and there, it seems like it's taking forever.
This is a Debugbar-Screenshot of my current application:
Even 20 database queries only take up to 5ms in total. For my service providers I only used Debugbar, Sentinel, Bugsnag and HashIds - so nothing too mayor. Even when I had Bugsnag turned off the boot-time was almost the same; very slow.
Running artisan optimize and route:cache did not help with the loading time at all (even though I am using a lot of route controllers, which should have slowed things down).
Any ideas? Cheers!
Level 3
No, I have a mid-2014 MBP with 2,8 Ghz i7. So generally this should be really fast. Normal php sites are taking only 2ms load time maximum (just an empty "hello world"). That's why it's so strange to me…
Level 65
What's your NFS settings in Vagrantfile? Or do you use rsync? Have anything like lookupcache=none in the settings? That slows it down a lot.
Level 3
I am using the default Laravel Homestead box. So the Vagrantfile I am using is this one: https://github.com/laravel/homestead/blob/master/Vagrantfile
Level 3
Okay, I finally fixed this by changing my Homestead.yml to this:
folders:
- map: ~/Development/Websites
to: /home/vagrant/www
type: nfs <-- This is important
After that, just do a homestead halt, homestead provision and homestead up. That should be it!
If NFS should give you errors, this might be helpful: https://coderwall.com/p/uaohzg/use-nfs-to-speed-up-your-vagrant
2 likes
Level 19
Vagrant on windows is very slow
Sorry I don't agree. It works darn fine for me and my PC is mediocre (2.8 GHz i5 | 8GB ram).
Level 1
Switching to NFS got me from ~900ms to ~150ms. Thanks for sharing.
Level 12
@spaceemotion Thanks for the type: nfs tip! The long booting time was really bugging me...
Booting time went down from 600ms - 1s (!) to only 60ms - 150ms.
Man, what a relief!
It seems this option is stated in the docs, but it should definitely be more highlighted as to how much it can help speed up your booting time.
Cheers!
1 like
Please or to participate in this conversation.