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ʕ☞ᴥ ☜ʔ Kix's blog · Oct 23, 2025

Unhogging RAM from WSL

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I have 64 gigs of RAM. I thought that was plenty, but recently I've noticed Libre Hardware Monitor reporting that I was consistently at 90% RAM usage. How? Opening Task Manager reveals that VmmemWSL.exe was consuming 30GB of RAM -- but when I ran htop inside Ubuntu running on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), it was only reporting 6GB of use. I also run Docker, but it's reporting only 2GB of…

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