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Discussion on: Beginner Devs Should Use Linux... Maybe

 
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Michiel Hendriks • Edited

In WSL2 there is also a memory issue due to normal Linux kernel behavior of disk caching. This will cause VM to eat into your normal memory.

See github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166

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aibarra11

whoa. and the issues is still open 😅.
thanks! I'll keep an eye out for that. currently seeing only 250mbs of memory being used by it.