wsl
filesystem performance is slow
workaround
Prefer ~/
over /mnt
when filesystem performance is needed
wsl uses all the ram
yolo
Force linux to drop the page cache
echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
limit memory assigned to WSL2 VM
Create a %UserProfile%\.wslconfig
file
[wsl2]
memory=6GB
swap=0
localhostForwarding=true
running windows applications in wsl
integrate beyond compare in wsl
Inside ~/.gitconfig
:
[diff]
tool = bcomp
[difftool]
prompt = false
[difftool "bcomp"]
path = "/mnt/c/Program\\ Files/Beyond\\ Compare\\ 4/BCompare.exe"
cmd = "/mnt/c/Program\\ Files/Beyond\\ Compare\\ 4/BCompare.exe" "$(wslpath -aw $LOCAL)" "$(wslpath -aw $REMOTE)"
[merge]
tool = bcomp
[mergetool]
prompt = false
[mergetool "bcomp"]
path = "/mnt/c/Program\\ Files/Beyond\\ Compare\\ 4/BCompare.exe"
cmd = "/mnt/c/Program\\ Files/Beyond\\ Compare\\ 4/BCompare.exe" "$(wslpath -aw $LOCAL)" "$(wslpath -aw $REMOTE)" "$(wslpath -aw $BASE)" "$(wslpath -aw $MERGED)"
increase number of open files
Running into EMFILE
errors because too many files open? (looking at you npm i
):
mylimit=8000
sudo prlimit --nofile=$mylimit --pid $$; ulimit -n $mylimit