Opened 14 years ago
Last modified 9 years ago
#8388 closed defect
Very slow Apache request time when reading files in a Shared Folder on a Liunx guest — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Paul Serby | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | shared folders | Version: | VirtualBox 4.0.4 |
| Keywords: | apache performance | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | other |
Description
I run a team of 10 developers who run either Snow Leopard, Windows 7 or Ubuntu as their host OS. We all run the same Ubuntu Lucid LTS guest to run our LAMP stack. We need to share /var/application from our hosts to our guests. If we use Shared Folders, apache will only server 180 request on static content. If we switch to a Samba or NFS share the we get 3-6 times the performance.
This problem, existed with our previous Debian, Ubuntu guests. I have tried importing the guest into VMWare Fusion and response time using their Shared Folders is very quick.
You can find more details about the problem here: http://blog.clock.co.uk/
If you need more information about our setup or strace outputs from apache, I can provide these upon request.
