wsl

filesystem performance is slow

workaround

Prefer ~/ over /mnt when filesystem performance is needed

wsl uses all the ram

WSL 2 consumes massive amounts of RAM and doesn’t return it

workarounds

yolo

Force linux to drop the page cache

echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

GitHub

limit memory assigned to WSL2 VM

Create a %UserProfile%\.wslconfig file

[wsl2]
memory=6GB
swap=0
localhostForwarding=true

GithHub