RAM was set only 8 Gb. #6030

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ibb5510
Oct 5, 2020

ubuntu-memory-2020-10-04.pptx
The computer has 128 Gb RAM, but wsl or unbutu uses 8 GB. Using stress to test wsl2-ubuntu performance, memory is totally used only 16 GB. Do we can fix the bug?

OS: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS on Windows 10 x86_64
Kernel: 4.19.128-microsoft-standard
Uptime: 16 mins
Packages: 643 (dpkg)
Shell: bash 5.0.17
Terminal: /dev/pts/0
CPU: Intel i9-9900K (16) @ 3.600GHz
GPU: bdf4:00:00.0 Microsoft Corporation Device 008e
Memory: 109MiB / 7958MiB

Answered by 0xbadfca11

Not bug.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/release-notes#build-20175
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config#configure-global-options-with-wslconfig

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0xbadfca11
Oct 5, 2020

Not bug.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/release-notes#build-20175
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config#configure-global-options-with-wslconfig

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Answer selected by therealkenc

therealkenc
Oct 5, 2020

In %USERPROFILE%\.wslconfig

[wsl2]
memory=128GB

Leaving a little headroom, so maybe memory=96GB, is not a bad idea.

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