WSL2 / Vmmem

Post author By samuel
Post date August 5, 2020

There is an ongoing issue with vmmem eating up all your memory in windows 10 2004. There is a workaround.

Workaround: Create a %UserProfile%\.wslconfig file in Windows and use it to limit memory assigned to WSL2 VM.
Apostolos
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166#issuecomment-526725261

Below is an example of .wslconfig

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