Slow Symfony on vagrant box

Question

I'm on Windows 7 and i'm using vagrant box for a Symfony2 project.

I configured for nfs :

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "hashicorp/precise32"
  config.vm.provision :shell, path: "bootstrap.sh"
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, host: 1234, guest: 80
  config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.50.4"
  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/var/www", type: "nfs"
  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
    v.memory = 2048
    v.cpus = 2
  end
end

But my Symfony2 prokect is still veryyy slow.

What can i do ? I don't find a good solution...

possible duplicate of [Symfony2 +Vagrant performance - running slow - speeding up?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23983670/symfony2-vagrant-performance-running-slow-speeding-up) — Sidney Gijzen, Nov 26 '14 at 17:29

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 15 '14 at 12:54

Overriding the cacheDir and logDir in app/AppKernel.php to a directory outside the NFS share usually gives quite a performance boost. For example:

public function getCacheDir()
{
    return '/tmp/symfony/cache';
}

public function getLogDir()
{
    return '/tmp/symfony/logs';
}

Only con: you can't inspect the cache and log files from your Host system. This could also mean that you loose autocompletion in your IDE (eg. PHPStorm with Symfony2 Plugin).

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 19 '20 at 15:32

2

Try to move vendor/ outside the shared directory.

edited May 19 '20 at 15:32

Samuel Liew

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answered Dec 10 '14 at 12:03

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Crouching Kitten · Answer 3 · 2017-10-30T13:58:12.817

Since none of the methods for relocating the vendor folder worked for me in our project, I came up with this solution:

Enable symlinks for Virtualbox in Vagrant. (This feature is disabled by default for security reasons, so do this only on developer machines.) See: Symbolic links and synced folders in Vagrant
```
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    vb.customize ["setextradata", :id, "VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/v-root", "1"]
end
```
Create the "var" and the "vendor" folders outside of the shared directory (usually "/vagrant"). (Don't forget setting the proper owner for these folders.)
```
mkdir -p /var/cache/MyProject/var
mkdir -p /var/cache/MyProject/vendor
```

Link them in the shared folder ("/vagrant"). (Delete the folders if they already exist.)

ln -s /var/cache/MyProject/var /vagrant/var
ln -s /var/cache/MyProject/vendor /vagrant/vendor

Execute the "composer install" only after the previous steps.

I got a 4-6 times speedup just because of the relocation.

Slow Symfony on vagrant box

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