Performance

OSX

Setup	Native (out of the box)	Docker-Sync
Setup	Native (out of the box)	Unison	native_osx
Docker Toolbox - VMware Fusion	12.31s	0.24s	n/a (issue)
Docker Toolbox - VirtualBox	3.37s	0.26s	n/a (issue)
Docker for Mac	20.55s	0.36s	0.28s
Docker for Mac Edge	18.12s	0.27s	0.19s
Docker for Mac Edge + APFS	18.15s	0.38s	0.37s
Docker for Mac Edge :cached	17.65s	0.21s	0.22s

Setup and details below at Performance Tests 2017.

Windows

Coming soon.

Linux

Coming soon.

Performance Tests 2017

Results

Test: writing 100MB

Setup	Native (out of the box)	Docker-Sync
Setup	Native (out of the box)	Unison	native_osx
Docker Toolbox - VMware Fusion	8.70s	0.22s	n/a (issue)
Docker Toolbox - VirtualBox	3.37s	0.26s	n/a (issue)
Docker for Mac	18.85s	0.24s	0.28s
Docker for Mac Edge	18.12s	0.27s	0.19s
Docker for Mac Edge :cached	17.65s	0.21s	0.22s

Those below is how the tests were made and how to reproduce them:

Setup

Test-hardware

i76600u

16GB

SSD

Sierra

Docker Toolbox VMware Fusion machine:

docker-machine create --driver vmwarefusion --vmwarefusion-cpu-count 2 --vmwarefusion-disk-size 50000 --vmwarefusion-memory-size 8000 default

Docker for Mac

8GB
CPUs

Native implementations

Those tests run without docker-sync or anything, just plain what you get out of the box.

VirtualBox - Native

docker-machine create --driver virtualbox --virtualbox-cpu-count 2 --virtualbox-disk-size 20000 --virtualbox-memory "8000" vbox

docker run -it -v /Users/em/test:/var/www alpine time dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/www/test.dat bs=1024 count=100000
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
real  0m 3.37s
user  0m 0.00s
sys 0m 2.09s

3.37s

VMware Fusion - Native

docker run -it -v /Users/em/test:/var/www alpine time dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/www/test.dat bs=1024 count=100000
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
real  0m 12.32s
user  0m 0.14s
sys 0m 2.22s

12.31s

Docker for Mac - Native

8GB Ram
2 CPUs

docker run -it -v /Users/em/test:/var/www alpine time dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/www/test.dat bs=1024 count=100000
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
real  0m 18.85s
user  0m 0.11s
sys 0m 1.06s

20.55s

Docker-sync - Strategy: Native_osx

Get this repo and this boilerplate project

git clone https://github.com/EugenMayer/docker-sync-boilerplate
cd docker-sync-boilerplate/default
docker-sync-stack start

Vmware Fusion

docker exec -it nativeosx_app-unison_1 time dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/www/test.dat bs=1024 count=100000
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
real  0m 0.32s
user  0m 0.02s
sys 0m 0.24s

0.32s

Docker for Mac

docker exec -it nativeosx_app-unison_1 time dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/www/test.dat bs=1024 count=100000
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
real  0m 0.28s
user  0m 0.02s
sys 0m 0.25s

0.26s

Docker-Sync - Strategy: Unison

Get this repo and this boilerplate project

git clone https://github.com/EugenMayer/docker-sync-boilerplate
cd docker-sync-boilerplate/unison
docker-sync-stack start

VirtualBox

docker exec -it unison_app-unison_1 time dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/www/test.dat bs=1024 count=100000
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
real  0m 0.26s
user  0m 0.00s
sys 0m 0.23s

VMware Fusion

docker exec -it unison_app-unison_1 time dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/www/test.dat bs=1024 count=100000
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
real  0m 0.24s
user  0m 0.01s
sys 0m 0.23s

Docker for Mac

docker exec -it unison_app-unison_1 time dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/www/test.dat bs=1024 count=100000
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
real  0m 0.24s
user  0m 0.04s
sys 0m 0.16s

0.36s