are you using WSL1 or WSL2 ?

you may not have a choice !

it seems you need windows 10 build 18917 or higher to run WSL2 for example i dont have a choice because im running windows 10 ver 1809 build 17763 and windows 10 ver 1909 build 18323 asap

• https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/

WSL top is interesting

top - 22:45:19 up 0 min,  0 users,  load average: 0.52, 0.58, 0.59
Tasks:   6 total,   1 running,   5 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  7.6 us,  4.3 sy,  0.0 ni, 88.1 id,  0.0 wa,  0.1 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem : 16726340 total, 13060072 free,  3436916 used,   229352 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 34617724 total, 34584156 free,    33568 used. 13155692 avail Mem

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
    1 root      20   0    8324    152    128 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.06 /init
    3 root      20   0    8328    152    116 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 /init
    4 cdarra    20   0   16892   3436   2036 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.07 -bash
   16 root      20   0    8328    152    116 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 /init
   17 cdarra    20   0   16892   3448   3316 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.06 -bash
   30 cdarra    20   0   17620   2236   1576 R   0.0  0.0   0:00.03 top

are there any advantages apart from (hyperv) speed by switching to wsl2 ?

Comments

[Robert Kedzior]

WSL2 with docker on windows. I had to go for the insiders build to run it, but does the job do far 🙂

[Clive Da]

NICE but ONCE and only ONCE i made the mistake of installing insider on a non VM ! then i found out it is impos to revert back without reinstalling windows 10 :(

[Clive Da]

WSL1 seems fine to me ! but i do have an i7 with 16G RAM !