Magento 2 running very slow on local envirement

[kuldeepdaffodil]

Hi

I am using magento 2 and found admin , frontend loading is very slow after disable cache . Additionally jQuery is not working in default luma theme for custom features .

[ezequielalba]

Got the same issue, installed a VM with kubuntu for work, and it is too slow, disabled cache of magento 2 as well.

[mrtuvn]

For linux enviroment i think it work faster than in window. Try to use minify js css or merge theme to one line for better performance. You should try varnish for cache instead default

[acharrex]

Magento MUST be fast!

At the moment, it is just impossible to develop on Magento without keep caches enabled.

[alankent]

For now, using Grunt is the fastest UI development approach. If you google "grunt magento 2" multiple blog posts come up. There is also our documentation at http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/frontend-dev-guide/css-guide/css_quick_guide_mode.html#server-side-grunt if you have not seen it.

[alankent]

Reading back on this thread I am not sure if original question was for development vs production. I think some suggestions are good for development, other for production. Varnish is good for production. Grunt is best available for development if you are talking about CSS/Less etc.

[ezequielalba]

Ok, for theme customization, and for use of the CSS/Less the best way is by using Grunt? @alankent, i have a VM with a kubuntu ambient configured, so i have to install node.js too, if i follow the documentation of the devdocs.magento.com, am i right?

[alankent]

We try not to dictate tools for developers, but the answer to the most responsive "edit, test" cycle for CSS today that Magento provides is Grunt. If the community finds a better way, cool!

[ezequielalba]

thanks! @alankent

[kuldeepdaffodil]

Hi All

I have create this issue for development environment. When We disabled cache and and doing changes then magento works very slow .

[aaronsturm]

I've noticed a few of these "slow" issues, so I'm unsure which to comment on. I'm using this one since it specifically says "local environment" since that best matches our situation.

I'm running Magento 2 using a local Docker VM with the memory set to 2048MB. Even with caching enabled, it would take several minutes to load the default homepage with a fresh install. Others on my team also tried with the same results.

I'm using the Docker Image from Chadrien as my base image. I changed the php.ini-developement values to:

• always_populate_raw_post_data = -1
• date.timezone = "America Los_Angeles"
• memory_limit = 2048M

We're currently using AWS EC2 instances to bypass this using the same Docker configuration, but it isn't ideal. Let me know any information I can provide to help troubleshoot this. Thanks!

[alankent]

Could you do me a favor and try the alankent/gsd Docker image and time how long the home page takes to load. (I am more familiar with this image.) Then please let me know how many seconds it took to load and the hardware spec you are running on, thx!

[aaronsturm]

Thanks for your prompt reply @alankent! I used that image and it's significantly faster, or "normal speed". I don't see a Dockerfile on the Docker Hub page. Can you send it to me so I can compare? Thanks!

[alankent]

Interesting. My Dockefile is a bit of a hack job at present, and does things like preload Luma - good for play, not good for building a new site. I am travelling at present, so here are some snippets from the Dockerfile that I can get to you quickly as a point of comparison - I will try to make something cleaner if needed, but that will have to wait until after my current trip ends.

Oh, and have you tried https://github.com/mageinferno/ ? That might be your easiest solution.

Oh, and check XDEBUG is off - that slows things down a lot.

I have not tested (sneaking a few mins in), but here are the relevant bits I think from my Dockerfile.

Dockerfile

FROM php:7.0-apache
MAINTAINER Alan Kent <alan.james.kent@gmail.com>

RUN apt-get update \
 && apt-get install -y libfreetype6-dev libicu-dev libjpeg62-turbo-dev libmcrypt-dev libpng12-dev libxslt1-dev \
 && docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/ --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/include/ \
 && docker-php-ext-install gd intl mbstring mcrypt pdo_mysql xsl zip
RUN apt-get update \
 && apt-get install -y vim git curl net-tools telnet sudo cron \
 && curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer \
 && a2enmod rewrite

# Expand default memory limit.
COPY php.ini /usr/local/etc/php/

# MySQL / MariaDB (I used MariaDB because apt-get indicated MySQL
# was no longer available).

# Add the Apache virtual host file
ADD apache_default_vhost /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/magento.conf

# Load the sample database
ADD magento2-install.sh /usr/local/bin

# Overwrite apache config file to use /magento2 instead of /var/www/html
ADD apache2.conf /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

# Make sure XDEBUG is not enabled - that slows things down by factor of 3 or more.

php.ihi

memory_limit = 2048M

apache_default_vhost

<VirtualHost *:80>

  DocumentRoot /magento2

  <Directory /magento2>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
  </Directory>
  ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
  LogLevel warn
  CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

magento2-install.sh

#!/bin/bash

set -x

cd /magento2

# Install Magento and load sample data.
bin/magento setup:install --backend-frontname=admin \
    --cleanup-database --db-host=127.0.0.1 \
    --db-name=magento --db-user=magento --db-password=magento \
    --admin-firstname=Magento --admin-lastname=User \
    --admin-email=user@example.com \
    --admin-user=admin --admin-password=admin123 --language=en_US \
    --currency=USD --timezone=America/Chicago --use-rewrites=1 \
    --use-sample-data

# Trigger index rebuilds to make sure everything is ready before
# web server starts (reduces warnings in admin UI about indexes not
# being up to date)
bin/magento cron:run
bin/magento cron:run

# Deploy static view assets to make the start up phase faster.
bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

# Set developer mode
bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer

# Above commands result in 'localhost' being in cached files - clear
# the cache to lose that setting.
rm -rf var/cache

apache2.conf (I think I just took default one and changed home directory to /magento2, so probably don't need this.)

# see http://sources.debian.net/src/apache2/2.4.10-1/debian/config-dir/apache2.conf
# (Modified to use /magento2 instead of /var/www/html)

Mutex file:/var/lock/apache2 default
PidFile /var/run/apache2/apache2.pid
Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 5
User magento
Group magento
HostnameLookups Off
ErrorLog /proc/self/fd/2
LogLevel warn

IncludeOptional mods-enabled/*.load
IncludeOptional mods-enabled/*.conf

# ports.conf
Listen 80
<IfModule ssl_module>
    Listen 443
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_gnutls.c>
    Listen 443
</IfModule>

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Require all denied
</Directory>

<Directory /magento2>
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

DocumentRoot /magento2

AccessFileName .htaccess
<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
    Require all denied
</FilesMatch>

LogFormat "%v:%p %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\ "" vhost_combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent

CustomLog /proc/self/fd/1 combined

<FilesMatch \.php$>
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

# Multiple DirectoryIndex directives within the same context will add
# to the list of resources to look for rather than replace
# https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex
DirectoryIndex disabled
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

IncludeOptional conf-enabled/*.conf
IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf