Symfony2 + Assetic: watch on OSX is slow

Question

I'm currently working on a Symfony 2 project, using Assetic for assets management.

On Mac OSX (Mavericks 10.9 and ML 10.8), the watcher (--watch command) is very slow to detect modifications. On Linux, it's leveraging inotify to speed it up.

I would like to know if there is there a way to improve Assetic's performance on OSX before considering switching to another tool like Grunt to manage my assets while developing.

Answer 1

We actually came up with a solution on this one.

The issue was that our Assetic Bundle was running Lurker (https://github.com/henrikbjorn/Lurker) inside Assetic.

Simply disable it and rely only on Assetic has solved our issue.

Hope it'll help.