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You're using Docker Compose on Mac? I tried when it was still called Fig, and while it was wonderful for simplicity, the filesystem performance for VirtualBox/boot2docker made it brutal to use. My Rails apps in development mode (therefore serving up many individual assets) would take almost a minute to load each page.

Has it gotten better, is there a trick you're using, or am I hitting an edge case you don't have?

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>would take almost a minute to load each page

VirtualBox filesystem performance isn't amazing, but it isn't anywhere near that bad. There was probably another issue involved here.

No, we ran into the same issues. When dealing with mid-sized Node.js projects in particular where the dependency tree may include something like 70k source files. `npm install` can take several minutes, builds on-save could take several seconds. We resolved to simply doing everything inside of a VM, using sshfs to "persist" the data out to the host machine on-demand for those uncomfortable using vim/tmux inside the VM.

I really don't think so. You might just be underestimating the number of static asset files in a client-heavy web app before concat/minify ever happens. Watching the logs, you could see... each... little... file... take... way too long.

Yeah, the filesystem for VBox got significantly better (use to have to use a custom ISO to get volume shares to work properly).

We haven't had a problem since the Docker 1.3 update.

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