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Windows Subsystem for Linux September 2023 update

by gokhan on 9/19/23, 8:45 AM with 3 comments

  • by sznio on 9/19/23, 12:10 PM

    > autoMemoryReclaim – Makes the WSL VM shrink in memory as you use it by reclaiming cached memory

    > Sparse VHD – Automatically shrinks the WSL virtual hard disk (VHD) as you use it

    Finally. For the first one I would just restart the VM, but the second just consumed my whole drive with no way to get it back. I had to resort to enabling filesystem compression on the vhd file.