# Dev containers are slow

**URL:** <https://community.okteto.com/t/dev-containers-are-slow/109>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [May 30, 2022, 6:02am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/dev-containers-are-slow/109 "2022-05-30T06:02:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![davemaier](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.okteto.com/davemaier/32/27_2.png) [@davemaier](https://community.okteto.com/u/davemaier)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 6:02am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/dev-containers-are-slow/109/1 "2022-05-30T06:02:25Z")

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Hi! I’ve been having a not so pleasurable developer experience for more than two months now. I’m developing on an okteto cloud developer pro account and getting my deployments into dev mode already takes quite a while.  
But the real problem is that starting and restarting my nodejs server in the dev container is really slow and takes close to a minute sometimes. On my local machine the server starts instantly.

I have many namespaces that all use quite some memory and cpu, is there some global throttling if a user takes up to much ressources?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![gabriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de0a6/32.png) [@gabriel](https://community.okteto.com/u/gabriel)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 7:53am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/dev-containers-are-slow/109/2 "2022-05-31T07:53:31Z")

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Hey there,

Can you post the contents of your .stignore file(s), there should be one at the root of your repo / possibly one at the root of each project if you have a nx style monorepo with multiple projects.

Thanks,  
The Okteto Support Team

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**Author:** ![davemaier](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.okteto.com/davemaier/32/27_2.png) [@davemaier](https://community.okteto.com/u/davemaier)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 7:57am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/dev-containers-are-slow/109/3 "2022-06-22T07:57:32Z")

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HI Gabriel!

Thanks for your reply. Somehow this problem has solved itself. I haven’t changed anything but I’m happy that my dev containers run at a reasonable speed again.