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Dev Pandya

06/17/2022, 8:05 PM
Hello Everyone! I'm a windows10 user wanting to run Orchest locally. I followed the installation steps in the docs (installed minikube then Orchest) and I can see the Orchest interface in my web browser at 127.0.0.1 using the "minikube tunnel" command. But it is extremely slow and unresponsive. It takes minutes to load simple stuff. I have assigned 12 cpus to my minikube cluster. I went through older messages in this channel and using WSL is mentioned for running on Windows. Does anyone have the steps on running Orchest on windows?
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Yannick

06/17/2022, 8:41 PM
Hi there! For windows it is indeed recommended to use WSL2. After setting up WSL2 you can just follow the regular installation instructions to set up Orchest. @Rick Lamers Have you tried running Orchest on Windows lately?
Running on 12 cpus is more than enough ;) I am not familiar enough with how minikube/docker operates on windows to understand why the minikube tunnel command is so slow. I hope (and expect) running on WSL fixes things for you. ๐Ÿคž
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Rick Lamers

06/18/2022, 7:12 AM
@Dev Pandya would be happy to help you figure out performance bottlenecks. Can you describe your setup a bit more? Is it Docker for Desktop and minikube with the Docker driver and Windows using an x86_64 processor? (So no WSL/WSL2)?
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Esraa Madi

06/20/2022, 4:45 AM
i am facing the same issue while using the same installation instruction you have mentioned above minikube start --cpus 6 --memory 8g --disk-size 50g
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Rick Lamers

06/20/2022, 8:18 AM
Iโ€™m taking a look at the Windows performance today. Will post an update here later ๐Ÿ™Œ
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Dev Pandya

06/21/2022, 7:03 PM
Thank you for the replies! Yes it is Docker for desktop. I have i9 32gigs ram 64 bit system. I will try it on WSL2 and see if I can make it work.
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Rick Lamers

06/22/2022, 12:58 PM
Havenโ€™t forgotten, doing some more testing. Will come back to this ๐Ÿ‘
Still haven't forgotten, did some more testing but finding some I/O issues. More investigation necessary. Will follow up
Following up on this @Dev Pandya, Windows seems to be having issues running
minikube
properly when using the Docker driver. Our testing of the Docker for Desktop shipped Kubernetes cluster is in progress, will report back once we've tested and verified that that's working. That will be the preferred long term solution for running Kubernetes clusters on Windows anyway (when using Docker as the container runtime).
Hi @Dev Pandya, we've just released a new version that fixes Orchest to work with Docker for Desktop's shipped Kubernetes cluster. It also improves performance when running Orchest on Windows through
minikube
(that still performs better than Docker for Desktop Kubernetes due to our in-cluster registry). Let me know if you have any issues! :)