Slow build time on windows 8.1

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Hi all,
I’ve installed Meteor v1.2.0.1 for windows, with NodeJS v4.1.1.
I’m seeing slow build times, even with the default project that is created upon “meteor create [app_name]”.
After creating a new app and starting meteor, adding a simple var assignment under the isServer and saving it is followed by a long build.
I didn’t manage to do a METEOR_PROFILE in windows, but I did see that “selecting package versions” takes ~8 seconds, “building the application” another 4, and combined with the other operations in between a total of 16 seconds.

The machine I’m working on:

  • windows 8.1
  • 8GB ram
  • i7 quad core
  • 256GB SSD

My questions:

  1. Is there a way to profile meteor build on windows?
  2. Is this a known issue and do you know of a way to make the build time more bearable?

Thanks!

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You should be able to get a profile if you do

SET METEOR_PROFILE=1

before your meteor build. However, I believe it only really profiles the package resolver (at least the profiling output stops long before the build completes).

:coffee:?

:wink:

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Coffee is nice, but can’t have too much of that…
Any one else had similar experience to such slow build times?

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I do. I dual-boot a Linux distro just because of Meteor now. It’s PAINFULLY slow on Windows. It’s sad to be honest.

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Man think I’m going to have to join the club!

I normally develop php on cloud9 because, well conflicts with OS

However meteor / mongo kills the ram limit so it won’t run on cloud9… so now I’m happily building on windows untillll… 1 minute rebuild time sucks!

I’m either looking at
dual boot
upgrade to windows 10 & hope
pay for premium account at c9!

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I had similar issues. Update to W10 helped a bit. Switching from Iron Router to Flow Router cut the time by 1/3. I have no idea why. I also found adding npm packages (vs. only Meteor packages) slowed it down considerably. Try this.

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Guys, I had the same problem on windows 10.

What I’ve done was :

  • Activated Ubuntu into Windows 10
  • Had Ubuntu processing Meteor

The build time has reduced from 17sec to 3 sec.

Although MongoDB is not able to share window filesystem on windows, so Mongo is running on a Docker instance.

In order to make run meteor easier on ubuntu, I created a sh file like that :

#!/bin/sh

export MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/vcpMeteorDB
export METEOR_PROFILE=1
export METEOR_WATCH_FORCE_POLLING=2

meteor

To access the meteor code inside the ubuntu machine to run, just

$ cd /mnt/{drive letter on windows such as c or d }/{path to the code on windows}
$ ./my-sh.sh

Hope it helps.