Docker run weirdly slow with volumes containing many files

dvohra · May 25, 2016, 7:36pm

The volume performance issue is a know issue. Refer

Volume sharing performance issues

opened 08:09PM - 24 Oct 14 UTC

question

As of the 1.3 release, volume mounting seems to be working. The issue is that w…hen attempting to share a large git repo (17k files) in to the container on boot2docker I am getting some crazy slow performance. Are there any workarounds or plans to address this issue? The problem seems to point at VirtualBox Guest Additions when you have lots of small files - http://mitchellh.com/comparing-filesystem-performance-in-virtual-machines Maybe NFS shared folders could be used somehow? Or maybe VirtualBox people are working on fixing the performance issues?

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Docker run weirdly slow with volumes containing many files

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