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		Asmod4n 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple announces Foundation Models and Containeriza... It’s one reason i don’t like WSL2. When you compile something which needs 30 GB RAM the only thing you can do is terminate the wsl2 vm to get that ram back.

Quarrel 6 months ago [–]

Since late 2023, WSL2 has supported "autoMemoryReclaim", nominally still experimental, but works fine for me.

add:

[experimental] autoMemoryReclaim=gradual

to your .wslconfig

See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config

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