Extremely slow on Windows 10

[rlwchang]

Please, check https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-win/troubleshoot/.
Issues without logs and details cannot be debugged, and will be closed.

• I have tried with the latest version of my channel (Stable or Edge)
• I have submitted Diagnostics
• I have included the Diagnostics ID in this Issue
• Windows Version: Windows 10 Pro
• Docker for Windows Version: 10.03.0-ce

Expected behavior

Be able to run all the commands with relatively good response time.

Actual behavior

The response times are pretty awful. They are on at least 25x slower than the Docker Toolbox.

Information

Diagnostic ID: E8F1D8B2-B010-4076-BF6D-E78E749871E8/2018-04-10_13-17-34

Currently running Windows 10 Pro, with 32GB memory, 1TB SSD, Intel quad-core at 2.8GHz (not hyperthreading processes), so pretty good hardware.

Using Docker for Windows with Hyper-V enabled.
Equally slow on Windows and Linux Containers.

Reset to default and failed to achieve any difference.

Equally slow with cmd, powershell, and git bash terminals.

Settings for Docker increased to 10GB memory and 4 CPU cores with no improvement.

Already up to date, so updating won't help.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. ... Download Docker for Windows
2. ... Use it and cry

[tonymet]

general advice for development

Here are directories to exclude

• development project directories that contain .git repos or node_modules, etc
• docker image directories
• anything with thousdands of files

What services to configure exclusions on

• add directory to Windows Defender Exclusion list https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028485/windows-10-add-an-exclusion-to-windows-defender-antivirus
• add directory to Windows Indexing exclusion list-- Control Panel -> Indexing Options -> Add all of your development directories

Do this and you will notice Docker & WSL will be 100x faster

I am seeing exactly the same thing, I have done as suggested and excluded all the relevant directories from Windows Defender. Is there anything else I should be looking at?

[tonymet]

@campbellm Next step would be to install procmon https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon . That gives detailed process activity listing all system calls and open files. That's how I found the above solutions. You may have another background process , or the exclusions above may not have been configured properly

[laymain]

I have the same issue here, I've added my development folders to the Windows Defender exclusion list without any performance improvement.
I've launched procmon and found a relevant event:

Process Name	Duration	Operation	Path	Result	Detail
docker.exe	67.8090678	CreateFile	\\MY_DOMAIN\PIPE\samr	BAD NETWORK PATH	Desired Access: Generic Read/Write, Disposition: Open, Options: , Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, AllocationSize: n/a

Is that a Docker network issue?

[77cc33]

Try to disable windows defender at all, just for testing. You can use Windows Shutup 10 Tool to do this for sure.

[darron1217]

I always disable my vaccine softwares when I run docker.
But it's extremely slow even there's no program running on my desktop.

I've assigned more CPU, RAM, SWAP spaces for moby linux, but it never gets better..

I guess it's not the problem of storage access. I think it's related to docker's virtual network accessing speed

[TheRealEdwardCullen]

Have been encountering this on a Windows 10 Enterprise (1709) laptop.

I strongly suspect that it's related to the use of VPN.

I'm using Citrix NetScalar Gateway. The performance of "docker ps" is abysmal when I'm connected, but fine when not.

I'm also encountering "No such container" error when trying to stop a container that is running (visible in ps), though whether that's directly related or not, I'm not sure; I don't know enough about the internals, but it all seems communication-related...

[laymain]

I tried to:

• Remove Docker
• Remove every remaining Docker configuration files
• Remove Hyper-V
• Remove all remaining network cards linked to Docker/Hyper-V
• Reinstall Hyper-V
• Reinstall Docker

without any improvement...

I ended by formatting and reinstalling Windows, everything runs smoothly now.

[rwrz]

I disabled Windows defender and it help a lot. But the network between containers seems slow... any ideas?