wsl

• wsl2 filesystem performance is much slower than wsl1 in /mnt
• Status

workaround

Prefer ~/ over /mnt when filesystem performance is needed

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

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

Controlled via /etc/wsl.conf:

[interop]
enabled=true
appendWindowsPath=false

More info

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)"

Running into EMFILE errors because too many files open? (looking at you npm i):

mylimit=8000
sudo prlimit --nofile=$mylimit --pid $$; ulimit -n $mylimit
su $USER

WSL2 clock drifts if left open when Windows sleeps. Fix with:

sudo hwclock -s