Vagrant Homestead slow

Question

I have a vagrant server based off Laravel Homestead for testing my Laravel sites locally for the most part it runs great. However, recently, I have been having problems where it will just halt for anything from a few minutes (typical) to hours (rare). This happens every 15 minutes or so. To the point where if I'm typing in the ssh connection it will just stop. Then when I check back a few minutes later, what I had been typing is now there. This isn't just SSH and pages stop loading, and vagrant commands including rsync and even halt fail.

This is vanilla Homestead, except for I changed the mapping to be via rsync (manual, I run the rsync command whenever I want to update the server). The reason for this was because I was getting 30second or so load times for webpages and after research and trying rsync this helped massively for this. Also, I have (since the problem) tried giving it access to all 4 cpus. I am running this on a macbook air 2013 if this is important. It has been running fine for the past 2 months. The vagrant server is running with 2048MB of memory and I have 15GB of disk space free.

This is a very frustrating problem as it slows down development massively.

edit: This seems to happen most frequently (but not exclusively) when using the mysql command line over ssh

Answer 1

I had the same issue on windows and this fixed it:

install this vagrant plugin: vagrant plugin install vagrant-winnfsd

then add this to your homestead.yaml: type: nfs

yaml file should look like this:

folders:
    - map: C:\my-www
      to: /home/vagrant/my-www
      type: nfs

when all is done destroy your vagrant and do vagrant up.