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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by NicoJuicy on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @02:53PM (#26893940)
It's not exactly wsl is it? Linux considers free memory useless and uses it as cache.

https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

Weird that i didn't knew this. Couple of years ago i wasted some time to get more "free" memory on my server. Lol

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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by Ajedi32 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @04:25PM (#26894981)
That's not really an issue under normal usage; unused memory _is_ useless. The problem is that in this case Linux has to share memory with another OS.
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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @03:32PM (#26894358)
Except that the cache needs to be intelligently shared or split between operating systems, and it's not. Or at least not well, as of 20H2.
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