MySQL Performance Issues

[knash94]

Hey,

I’m currently using the trial period of OrbStack before purchasing a license for our team, and so far, the performance improvement in our application is significant, generally providing a better developer experience.

However, we’ve noticed that our MySQL server is significantly slower on OrbStack compared to Docker Desktop when running many operations simultaneously. We’ve encountered this issue in the following two scenarios. It’s important to note that our resource allocation is the same between Docker Desktop and OrbStack, and we’re using the same Docker Compose files.

1. When running integration tests on our application, we need to execute a lot of migrations to populate the MySQL database for the tests. This process typically takes 30 seconds on Docker Desktop but 2 minutes on OrbStack.
2. When importing a 2GB .sql file into a database, it takes 1 minute 22 seconds on Docker Desktop and 11 minutes 43 seconds on OrbStack.

I’ve tried the following to resolve the issue, but none have been successful:

• Increasing the resource allocation for OrbStack
• Running the MySQL container within the host network
• Running with and without a mounted volume
• Completely uninstalling Docker, Docker Desktop, and OrbStack, then reinstalling OrbStack with a fresh installation
• Running the MySQL import command (mysql -u root -h 127.0.0.1 -p -D my-database < 2gb-backup.sql) both inside and outside of the container

Has anyone else encountered this issue and found a solution? Unfortunately, the slower MySQL database performance outweighs the benefits of OrbStack, which means we might continue using Docker Desktop.

[kdrag0n]

Can you share the full command or Compose config you're using to run MySQL?

[jerrybuckley]

Not sure if this helps but I too have had this experience while running Testcontainers (with SpringBoot) seeing about an 80% increase in execution time. It uses the official mysql:8.0 image (along with testcontainers/ryuk:0.5.1 in my case).