title: Vagrant on Windows w/ Precise64 runs php very slowly
body: <p>So I am have vagrant set up with virtual hosts on my development machine but when I try a very simple echo of 'hello world' it hangs for like 10 seconds before processing the file. HTML files render very quickly. Where do I even start to troubleshoot this? </p>
  
  <p>After doing some research, others have complained of slow performance with php and virtualbox/vagrant. Many have claimed that the use of the shared folder between host/guest is the cause of this. </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I have tried changing the shared folder location so that it is not pointed at /var/www/</li>
  <li>I have also tried removing the shared folder configuration completely by removing the 'config.vm.synced_folder' statement</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>In each case I have re-provisioned the box but still get the same performance issues, at least  a 10 second hang when hitting a simple php script in the web browser.</p>
  
  <p>Other things I have tried:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>running the same php script from the command line. This works just fine. Immediate response.</li>
  <li>Hitting an html page from the web browser. Also I get a quick response. </li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>This leads me to believe that the problem is somehow with the apache+php part of the stack.</p>
  
  <p>Not sure what else to do.</p>