Slow vagrant box, how to improve this?

Question

We\'ve built a vagrant box for our development box and we are facing some latency issues.

Issues:

• Assetic:watch is being slow
• Ove

Answer 1

For the test you can try to boot a vagrant without auto sync option for a shared folder, e.g. :

config.vm.synced_folder "./", "/home/vagrant/APP/", disabled: true

now you will experience the vagrant (web app) maximum speed, everything should be at least twice faster. But now nothing is synced between a host and the virtual machine.

Now you just add specific folders "without disabled: true" where development is taking place "src", "public", "tests" etc. and now speed should be very similar as first test, e.g. :

config.vm.synced_folder "./src", "/home/vagrant/APP/src", disabled: true
config.vm.synced_folder "./public", "/home/vagrant/APP/public", disabled: true

Folders with many files like ".git", "vendor", "node_modules", etc. really slow down a vagrant performance.

My phpunit tests lasted 12 minutes before that optimization and 4.5 min after this optimization (win host)

Enjoy.

For reference here is my config for homestead (laravel) :

folders:
 - map: "./"
   to: "/home/vagrant/APP"
   type: "nfs"
   options:
     disabled: true
 - map: "./app"
   to: "/home/vagrant/APP/app"
   type: "nfs"
 - map: "./resources"
   to: "/home/vagrant/APP/resources"
   type: "nfs"
 - map: "./routes"
   to: "/home/vagrant/APP/routes"
   type: "nfs"
 - map: "./tests"
   to: "/home/vagrant/APP/tests"
   type: "nfs"
 - map: "./public"
   to: "/home/vagrant/APP/public"
   type: "nfs"