docker on OSX slow volumes

Question

I\'m trying to use docker beta on OSX, mainly for Symfony development but the mounted volumes are incredible slow. Even for a vanilla Symfony project I get 6s page load time. Th

Answer 1

For people reading this now, maybe it's better to wait for Docker to fix this issue. A pull request has already been accepted to improve performance(https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/31047). This will be release somewhere in April 2017 and should be a big improvement.

I've tried some workarounds for Docker for Mac, but all of them had some pretty big disadvantages, mostly in usability. A good source for alternatives of the OSXFS can be found at: https://github.com/EugenMayer/docker-sync/wiki/Alternatives-to-docker-sync. Credits for Eugen Mayer for setting this up.

EDIT: First improvement is implemented in the edge release. https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/77 has more info on this.