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Check what's eating up CPU time and report back.
Activity Monitor or Linux similar (iotop/htop etc)
Oct 29, 2014
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Homestead is very slow on Yosemite
Hi,
on Yosemite my Homestead vm has become very slow. I've got only one site enabled. On Mavericks the site was superfast, now even "php artisan" takes 15 seconds to complete.
I'm running the lastest versions of virtualbox and vagrant
Has anyone else seen this issue? How can it be solved?
Level 13
top - 13:46:14 up 2:21, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.11, 0.12
Tasks: 93 total, 2 running, 91 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 1.4 us, 6.8 sy, 0.0 ni, 91.2 id, 0.0 wa, 0.7 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 2050104 total, 667936 used, 1382168 free, 56164 buffers
KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 used, 0 free. 339280 cached Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1103 redis 20 0 35172 7408 976 S 2.3 0.4 3:45.27 redis-server
1130 mysql 20 0 693968 62484 7864 S 2.0 3.0 3:43.48 mysqld
7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.7 0.0 0:59.13 rcu_sched
8 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 0.7 0.0 1:06.39 rcuos/0
2321 vagrant 20 0 90720 1908 484 S 0.7 0.1 0:19.27 nginx
25 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:34.98 kworker/0:1
1189 postgres 20 0 246432 1656 288 S 0.3 0.1 0:02.40 postgres
2782 root 20 0 216620 1092 768 S 0.3 0.1 0:41.36 VBoxService
1 root 20 0 33648 2984 1476 S 0.0 0.1 0:02.09 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:19.59 ksoftirqd/0
5 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0:0H
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_bh
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcuob/0
11 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
12 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.59 watchdog/0
13 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kdevtmpfs
15 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 netns
16 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 writeback
17 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd
18 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bioset
20 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd
When starting php artisan from a vanilla Laravel installation, the php process immediately jumps to 99% and it takes about 10 seconds to complete
The VBoxHeadless processor on my host machine (OSX Yosemite, mid 2011 iMac), takes about 15% when i'm doing nothing on the VM.
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For me it's about the sync process (it takes 1-5% CPU in idle). And yes, the composer dump-autoload is very slow, but everything else is working as expected. Do you experience delays in accessing http or database?
Level 65
Yeah is that from when it was going slow or just idle?
If you explain which part is slow and what is being used in process list. Fyi, htop is much nicer to read. iotop will also show any I/O problems
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I'm using Homestead on Yosemite since Beta4 and is working perfect.
Level 65
@montogeek It's more likely a local problem, remember not all OS environments are the same.
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Level 13
Reporting back: fortunately for me the problem did resolve on itself after a few days. Verrrry strange. I'll investigate it further if the problem pops up again.
Level 15
had the same probs 2 times! One day everything is working fine other day homestead lags. also if i try to homestead ssh it takes abut 60 seconds or longer to get in.
Level 15
I reinstalled vagrant, VirtualBox and homestead 3x ! And removed all the hidden files from the System (Library etc etc) and its still not working. i am really frustrated ...
Level 13
@schogetten I could temporary work around the problem by creating a new user on my mac and reinstall vagrant, Virtualbox and homestead there.
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freekmurze - so Yosemite runs this process that constantly rescans the filesystem everytime there is a change and that uses a lot of memory. I have found more times than not when things dont work on yosemite and then are fine hours or days later this has been going on. have you installed Memory Clean from the apple app store? It gets fantastic reviews and I myself have found it very helpful
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Level 8
@schogetten see my above comment I bet if you let it sit a few days it will clear up. I had to do it on mine too.
Level 13
@getstartify thanks for the tip, I'll take a look at Memory Clean
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@getstartify will try ;) thanks
Level 3
Same thing is with me. It's really really slow and laggy.
Level 65
Show us activity monitor of your Mac and of the VM.
sudo apt-get install htop
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Level 22
Do you use type: nfs with your shared folders? It has boosted performance significantly.
Level 65
NFS not on by default?
They're talking about website load speed or the general commands inside the VM?
Level 22
No it's not. Probably because of windows. Here's a short thread about that.
From what I understood it's about VM speed.
Level 15
Thats really annoying :(
Level 65
I would be worried about the 7.6GB/8GB used. That's one mad 2GB RAM VM there :P
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After restarting my iMac, the problem returned. Hopefully it solves itself after a few hours.
Activity monitor when doing nothing on the VM:
Level 65
Wow, that's some crazy MySQL memory being used, what's it doing?
Have you checked status on something like PHPMyAdmin?
Level 13
Mysql shouldn't be doing anything. The screenshots were taking a minute after I launched the homestead vm without any sites.
To make sure mysql isn't the culprit I stopped the mysql service. Unfortunately the VM still is very very slow.
Level 65
Could just be the amount of databases you have on it. Not sure if it uses memory for quick access to them.
Also, load is 0.52 in last 5mins. If you're not doing anything on it, it should be near enough 0.00/0.01
Try adding some more cores to the VM? A load of 1.00 would be pushing it for a single core machine.
Level 13
Things I also tried: disabling spotlight/launchbar No success: the problem still persists
Level 2
Try setting this in your my.cnf mysql file and restart mysql.
performance_schema=0
Level 13
Like last time to problem solved itself after leaving my mac on for a night.
Level 65
It's definitely doing something for a long period of time after boot. May want to look into that.
Also, try install iotop and check what it's doing with the disk.
sudo apt-get install iotop
Level 13
Installed iotop, will check the next time I'm experiencing slowness on the vm
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