Symfony2 and Twig performance in a vagrant box

nfs, php, symfony, twig, vagrant

Solution

In order to make it work faster in vagrant in case your host OS is Win (Windows 7 x64 in my case), you need to:

- add this fix. I also added 'prod' environment to the list:

public function getCacheDir()
{
    if (in_array($this->environment, array('dev', 'test', 'prod'))) {
        return '/dev/shm/project/cache/' .  $this->environment;
    }

    return parent::getCacheDir();
}

public function getLogDir()
{
    if (in_array($this->environment, array('dev', 'test', 'prod'))) {
        return '/dev/shm/project/logs';
    }

    return parent::getLogDir();
}

- Fix I/O performance by utilizing NFS. The thing is that I was confused: setting nfs=true option in synced_folders does NOT mean you're connecting through NFS. My host OS is Win7 and I had to install NFS server in order to make it work. Note that it's not free. Here are two folders I had to share:

Also, mounting with synced_folder did not work for me, as NFS server was only listening on specific IP address, so I had to comment out this:

config.vm.synced_folder "../../../project", "/var/www", type: "nfs",:nfs => true

and put this instead:

$script = <<SCRIPT
  sudo mount 192.168.178.40:/d/project /var/www/ && sudo mount 192.168.178.40:/d/project/_conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled && sudo service apache2 restart
SCRIPT

  config.vm.provision "shell", inline: $script, privileged: false, run: "always"

,where 192.168.178.40 is the IP where NFS ports are open. You can scan it from yout gurest OS with, e.g. nmap.

- And you'll also need to install vagrant plugin called vagrant-winnfsd. It can be done by:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-winnfsd

Problem

Prerequisites: http://box.scotch.io/ vagrant box 2. ``` # -*- mode: ruby -*- # vi: set ft=ruby : Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| config.vm.box = "scotch/box" config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.33.10" config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 80 config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 3306, host: 3306 config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 443, host: 443 config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 1081, host: 1081 config.vm.hostname = "scotchbox" config.vm.synced_folder "../../../project", "/var/www", :mount_options => ["dmode=777", "fmode=666", "uid=1000", "gid=1000"], type: "nfs" #config.vm.synced_folder "./mysql", "/var/lib/mysql", :mount_options => ["dmode=700", "fmode=600", "uid=106", "gid=112"], type: "nfs" config.vm.synced_folder "../../../project/_conf", "/etc/apache2/sites-enabled", :mount_options => ["dmode=755", "fmode=644", "uid=0", "gid=0"], type: "nfs" ############################# $script = <<SCRIPT sudo service apache2 restart && sudo service mysql start SCRIPT config.vm.provision "shell", inline: $script, privileged: false, run: "always" end ``` - A symfony2 project runs inside the box. Here is its require section of composer.json ``` "require": { "php": ">=5.3.3", "symfony/symfony": "2.2.*", "doctrine/orm": "~2.2,>=2.2.3", "doctrine/doctrine-bundle": "1.2.*", "twig/extensions": "1.0.*", "symfony/assetic-bundle": "2.1.*", "symfony/swiftmailer-bundle": "2.2.*", "symfony/monolog-bundle": "2.2.*", "sensio/distribution-bundle": "2.2.*", "sensio/framework-extra-bundle": "2.2.*", "sensio/generator-bundle": "2.3.*", "jms/security-extra-bundle": "1.4.*", "jms/di-extra-bundle": "1.3.*", "kriswallsmith/assetic": "v1.1.0-alpha4", "gedmo/doctrine-extensions": "dev-master", "stof/doctrine-extensions-bundle": "dev-master", "doctrine/doctrine-fixtures-bundle": "dev-master", "mopa/bootstrap-bundle": "2.2.x-dev", "twbs/bootstrap": "2.3.1", "jlong/sass-twitter-bootstrap": "2.3.1", "liip/theme-bundle": "dev-master", "fkr/cssurlrewrite-bundle": "*", "knplabs/knp-paginator-bundle": "dev-master", "knplabs/knp-components": "dev-master#f096dd02136957ce1fba5819261a45b3ee9ed4a7", "craue/formflow-bundle": "dev-master", "sonata-project/admin-bundle": "dev-master", "sonata-project/cache-bundle": "dev-master", "sonata-project/doctrine-orm-admin-bundle": "dev-master", "avalanche123/imagine-bundle": "v2.1", "r1pp3rj4ck/TwigstringBundle": "dev-master", "raulfraile/ladybug-bundle": "1.0.1" }, ``` Problem: When opening even an empty page like login form, it takes too long. As seen in profiler, the majority of time is taken by twig render: Twig taking 3.5 seconds to render What I have tried: - as you see in Vagrantfile, NFS is enabled. Not sure how to test it - Read this and this . The test you see on the screenshot above was run after those changes are done

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