.wslconfig

02/10/2023

• WSL consumes massive amounts of RAM
• https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166

• Define .wslconfig within C:\Users\<User Name>\.wslconfig
• memory: Limits maximum memory assigned to WSL2
• swap: Sets the size of swap space for WSL2 (It temporarly saves data if the RAM is full )
• processors: Limits the number of processors available to WSL2
• shmsize: Sets the maximum size of shared memory (It is a memory space that processes can access to share data)

    [wsl2]
    memory=16GB
    swap=8GB
    processors=12
    shmsize=8GB

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