Symfony on Xampp is very slow in development, what can I do?

Question

I have set up Symfony but every page load requires 40 seconds.

If I have an empty controller it takes 8 seconds to load. If I start to make some complex queries on the

Answer 1

A few quick suggestions:

• install PHP 5.5.x (faster)
• Use mod_fcgid instead of mod_php with Apache
• Raise realpath_cache_size and realpath_cache_ttl in your php.ini
• disable XDebug
• ...

See this question, this question and this question.

Answer 2

Something is not right on your system. 40 seconds is way too long. Even in dev mode, your pages should be showing within a second or two.

Someone else has had similar problems here: Windows 7 php + Symfony2 terribly slow