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

I had exactly the same thing. For me using docker-bg-sync (see on GitHub) made a dramatic improvement in speed and CPU usage.

Not as nice as just mounting the volume as you have to start a new container for every sync but it does the job.