Are you using the “new” file synchronization? The combination of that, the new virtualization framework that stabilized last year, and upgrading to a MacBook with an M1 Pro, the relatively large codebase I run daily zips along very quickly. It’s made up of:
- a PHP-fpm container running a 5m LoC codebase
- a nodeJS container running a webpack dev server instance on a 1m LoC frontend codebase
- 2 elasticsearch containers (one for logs and 1 for for app search)
- 2 Kibana container
- 1 logstash container
- A rabbitmq container
- a memcached container
- a redis container
- a Percona container
- 3-4 micro services each in there own container.
- an imgproxy container
All of this runs quite snappily in ~6 GB of RAM and I’ve never noticed any slowness while also running Edge, slack, VSCode, PHPStorm, zoom, and a bunch of terminal windows, and I could probably get that down a bit by consolidating the elasticsearch and kibana instances.
No root cause after 3 years. The best guess is the overhead of IO somewhere in the stack.