# Docker compose is extremely slow

**URL:** <https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-compose-is-extremely-slow/8690>\
**Category:** Docker Desktop\
**Tags:** dns, docker\
**Created:** [April 7, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-compose-is-extremely-slow/8690 "2016-04-07T20:40:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![sporto](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/docker/user_avatar/forums.docker.com/sporto/32/7035_2.png) [@sporto](https://forums.docker.com/u/sporto)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-compose-is-extremely-slow/8690/1 "2016-04-07T20:40:12Z")

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### Expected behavior

To run immediately

### Actual behavior

Takes several minutes to run

### Steps to reproduce the behavior

Since I installed Docker beta for Mac, docker-compose has become unusable slow. Simply doing something like:

docker-compose --verbose run app /bin/bash

Takes minutes. Every step in the verbose output e.g. `compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_container` hangs for about 30 seconds.

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**Author:** ![davetucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/docker/user_avatar/forums.docker.com/davetucker/32/9374_2.png) [@davetucker](https://forums.docker.com/u/davetucker)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-compose-is-extremely-slow/8690/2 "2016-04-08T13:44:18Z")

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Hi,

Thanks for your feedback and sorry you’re having problems with Docker for Mac.  
Do you have a sample `docker-compose.yml` file we could try this with to see where the issue lies?

Thanks!

– Dave

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**Author:** ![sporto](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/docker/user_avatar/forums.docker.com/sporto/32/7035_2.png) [@sporto](https://forums.docker.com/u/sporto)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 3:15am UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-compose-is-extremely-slow/8690/3 "2016-04-09T03:15:06Z")

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Hi Dave

This seems to do with changing networks. When I try using docker-compose in my office it runs as expected. At home it stalls. I remember issues like this with boot2docker. Then it was all fine using docker machine. Any clues?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![sporto](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/docker/user_avatar/forums.docker.com/sporto/32/7035_2.png) [@sporto](https://forums.docker.com/u/sporto)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-compose-is-extremely-slow/8690/4 "2016-04-09T03:33:50Z")

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This is an example docker-compose.yml

```auto
hello:
  image: hello-world

```

I do this `time docker-compose --verbose up`

And it takes minutes to run.

However if I turn the wifi off on my laptop it runs immediately. I’m using a Mac Book Pro, El Capitan 10.11.4

Thanks

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**Author:** ![sporto](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/docker/user_avatar/forums.docker.com/sporto/32/7035_2.png) [@sporto](https://forums.docker.com/u/sporto)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 8:08am UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-compose-is-extremely-slow/8690/5 "2016-04-09T08:08:18Z")

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Changing my DNS server provide to Google DNS 8.8.8.8 fixes this issue, no idea why.

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**Author:** ![ralphschindler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/docker/user_avatar/forums.docker.com/ralphschindler/32/7219_2.png) [@ralphschindler](https://forums.docker.com/u/ralphschindler)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-compose-is-extremely-slow/8690/6 "2016-04-11T15:59:23Z")

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Incidentally, I had this problem this morning as well, yesterday I was on a different network.  
I’ve noticed slowness issues with docker.local resolving, perhaps this is related, perhaps not. My local router uses 8.8.8.8 for resolution, and oddly, after changing my local dns to use 8.8.8.8 instead of the dns on the router, everything cleared up (I also switched to using port forarding instead of using docker.local).

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**Author:** ![frenchben](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/docker/user_avatar/forums.docker.com/frenchben/32/5778_2.png) [@frenchben](https://forums.docker.com/u/frenchben)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-compose-is-extremely-slow/8690/7 "2016-04-12T21:49:12Z")

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**Author:** ![frenchben](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/docker/user_avatar/forums.docker.com/frenchben/32/5778_2.png) [@frenchben](https://forums.docker.com/u/frenchben)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-compose-is-extremely-slow/8690/8 "2016-04-12T21:49:15Z")

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Closed on April 12, 2016, 9:49pm UTC