node/npm operations are vastly slower for me on docker with a linux vm, I have t...

dawnerd · 2025-10-07T15:57:10 1759852630

Can also confirm. We’ve had some client projects that had npm inside of containers and those were horribly slow on macOS.

Scaevolus · 2025-10-09T00:00:17 1759968017

Not an overlay fs, a VM writing to its own virtual block device.

llimllib · 2025-10-09T20:02:17 1760040137

I should have been more specific, I tested with:

`rm -rf node_modules && docker run --rm -ti -v $PWD:/app node:20.19.0-alpine3.20 sh -c "cd /app && time npm i"`

So an overlay FS (if I'm understanding you/the OP correctly), not the VM's disk