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…them within WSL. But to your point, WSL 2 does have some really big issues pending tho, such as https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166 and https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4699 . The TL;DR is that WSL 2 will happily use 80% of…

comment by nickjj · 2020-06-11 · in Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says

wsl is not that great https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197#issue-458254244

comment by disiplus · 2020-06-11 · in Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features Is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says

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story by searchableguy · 2020-06-08 · 0 comments

But then you have this thread with people running Cron jobs to free cached memory: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166 I imagine this will be addressed, but claims of lightweight seem exaggerated? But even more on my mind is the…

comment by mauflows · 2020-05-20 · in DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux

…and the clock drifts [1], or windows detach from the x server and can't be brought back. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4114

comment by trocado · 2020-05-07 · in Initial Impressions of WSL 2

I think this is the relevant bug: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2395 WSL2 has been great so far (I’ve been using it for a few months now with no serious issues).

comment by akho · 2020-05-06 · in Initial Impressions of WSL 2

Yes, this long issue comment explains how the true cause is the design of the Windows IO subsystem: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

comment by cesarb · 2020-05-06 · in Initial Impressions of WSL 2

…are two references about the WSL speed: [1] https://vxlabs.com/2019/12/06/wsl2-io-measurements/ [2] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197 It seems that they already improved a lot bur are still nowhere near native FS speed because…

comment by chrisandchris · 2020-05-03 · in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it

…3.0.4) but it is not installable Depends: libreadline7 (>= 7.0~beta) but it is not installable [1] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4898#issuecomment-61...

comment by mehrdadn · 2020-04-23 · in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

This seems relevant given that Wayland is the future: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/938

comment by jpeeler · 2020-04-18 · in X410 – X Server for Windows 10

Here's an excellent post by SvenGroot from MS with lots of background-info: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197#issuecomment-60...

comment by stragies · 2020-04-15 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

the performance on /mnt issue is not yet fixed https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197

comment by tuananh · 2020-04-15 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

…gave up on it, either because of the filesystem performance problems or because of the debuggers. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2028 (lldb, rr, delve all affected). This looks like a dreaded case of the first 90% is easy, it's…

comment by chx · 2020-04-15 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

…large improvement, there is still a glaring issue with accessing files between the WSL and Windows https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197

comment by brkattk · 2020-04-15 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

…up for the Windows Insider program though. Also check this for an annoying issue and a workaround: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4166 .

comment by soulclap · 2020-03-27 · in Setting Up Docker for Windows and WSL to Work Flawlessly

…and Linux unusable. WSL 2 should fix, but I don’t want to jump to an insider build quite yet. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2913

comment by btgeekboy · 2020-03-07 · in Windows Terminal Preview 0.9

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story by adonese · 2020-02-05 · 0 comments

…30 seconds to build. The game ran instantly. Also I ran it through WSL 2 with these instructions: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4793 Thank you for this! First time I've heard of wren also. Aside: Is it possible to do something…

comment by tony · 2020-02-02 · in Show HN: DOME, a framework for making 2D games with Wren

…in the past, but WSL1 is much faster than WSL2 when interoping with the Windows file system[0] [0] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197

comment by whycombagator · 2019-12-19 · in Multipass 1.0 – Mini-cloud on Mac or Windows workstation

> WSL 2.0...is very fast Unless you want to interop with the Windows file system[0] [0] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197

comment by whycombagator · 2019-10-20 · in Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?

…and it is very slow if you have a lot of small files. It's not NTFS. NTFS by itself is plenty fast. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

comment by throwaway8941 · 2019-09-20 · in Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4203

comment by bryanlarsen · 2019-09-09 · in The Cult of Kubernetes

…bug when dealing with a lot of files. The only way you can free up the file system is to restart. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2882 WSL 2 alleviates this file issue. There are some issues where daemons like postgres, mongo, etc.…

comment by tony · 2019-09-07 · in Microsoft Hosts First Windows Subsystem for Linux Conference

…even beyond that, I was thinking of one thing they added for performance reasons (see 3rd bullet): https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... . > However I'm not entirely sure if it's a concrete "syscall" or if it's…

comment by monocasa · 2019-09-01 · in Windows X86-64 System Call Table

…even beyond that, I was thinking of one thing they added for performance reasons (see 3rd bullet): https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... However I'm not entirely sure if it's a concrete "syscall" or if it's…

comment by mehrdadn · 2019-09-01 · in Windows X86-64 System Call Table

…performance issues is to bypass most of their I/O stack altogether, like they did with WSL2. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

comment by throwaway8941 · 2019-08-29 · in exFAT in the Linux kernel

…I read, since a virtual machine can use a small set of files to store a whole FS. EDIT: See here - https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

comment by kevingadd · 2019-08-29 · in exFAT in the Linux kernel

…of Windows, not just the kernel. Not having to check out the entire tree is why GVFS was made. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... talks about why Windows I/O for multi-file operations is slow in general (as…

comment by Arnavion · 2019-08-20 · in Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket

https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/423

comment by jepler · 2019-06-13 · in Ask HN: How might I blacklist code from running on WSL?

…and it's something they are unlikely to fix*; the more files you have, the slower it gets. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

comment by butteroverflow · 2019-06-12 · in The new Dropbox

…the same thing (from a user perspective). I asked the same question on their GitHub issues: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4022

comment by billziss · 2019-05-10 · in The New Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Architecture [video]

It's still an issue in 2019: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3292 In ubuntu you have to pass the --disable-inotify flag and the Debian version (without this flag) simply doesn't work.

comment by flukus · 2019-05-08 · in Microsoft Launches React Native for Windows

It is more then just "MFT contention". Lots of time are spend on other parts of the kernel: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

comment by j16sdiz · 2019-05-07 · in Windows 10 is getting a Microsoft-built Linux kernel

…noticeably slower than on other platforms. But it seems like the issue has quite fundamental roots: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... . Add to that Windows Defender scanning, and you have death by a thousand…

comment by crispinb · 2019-05-07 · in Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows

…from wsl? I certainly found that on the slow side. Though from what I've read on the topic (notably https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... ) incremental improvements might be all that's ever possible given Windows'…

comment by crispinb · 2019-05-03 · in Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools

…that. Looks like some other people have had similar issues with upgrading to previous versions: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3489 (though the issue is for (I think) 16.04->18.04, someone mentions that it also affects…

comment by anowlcalledjosh · 2019-04-18 · in What's new in Ubuntu 19.04

…efforts with WSL. The issue seems to be more inherent to the design and really hard to solve. ref: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873 To be clear, this is for a specific use-case. I don't believe that all applications will have…

comment by zimbatm · 2019-04-12 · in Pengwin – A Linux Distro Optimized for WSL Based on Debian

So it's mainly in GH issue comments things like https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2291#issuecomment-38... show that people have got it working. Whether MS ever use that tech. for production linux containers remains to be seen. It…

comment by raesene9 · 2019-03-10 · in Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish

…incorrect, broken floating point math. [1] If you need your math to be correct, use Cygwin. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/830

comment by op00to · 2019-02-16 · in Cygwin 3.0.0-1

…with some drawbacks mainly NTFS being very slow (which Microsoft are aware of and working on - see https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... ).

comment by nailer · 2019-02-01 · in Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella

…Edit2: Actually it looks like docker support is being worked on: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2291#issuecomment-43...

comment by kristianp · 2019-01-11 · in Show HN: Docker-based immutable workstation

This helped me: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/1932#issuecomment-40... Microsoft made some change a year or so ago that brought more of WSL into Windows Defender's view.

comment by tyingq · 2018-12-29 · in Windows file access performance compared to Linux

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story by eatonphil · 2018-12-29 · 278 comments

They're working on it: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/1932

comment by justinmchase · 2018-12-07 · in From macOS to Windows and WSL

…interesting and informative, but doesn't leave me with much hope that things will ever improve. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... I use Windows for development at work (semi-voluntarily - our Windows support…

comment by spatulon · 2018-12-07 · in From macOS to Windows and WSL

…& PHP 7.1 only has one issue currently. A bug with fastcgi buffering which I have documented here: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3687 Yes. It's a little bit slower but for development local environments it really does not matter.…

comment by 0x54D5 · 2018-12-07 · in From macOS to Windows and WSL

Oh, common. Of course you can stuff it on top, but beware of the risks. Please, see: * https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/1281 A random Joe says it works <--> Supported and stable configuration. But you are right HyperV seems to be…

comment by kraptor · 2018-11-05 · in Microsoft Releases a Linux Version of the ProcDump Sysinternals Tool

> Like what...? SQLite, for one. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2395

comment by Nullabillity · 2018-10-29 · in IBM acquires Red Hat

Wow. I remember the photo miniksa posted to GitHub when this was in process: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/111#issuecomment-238... Awesome to see it's finally up and running! \o/

comment by exikyut · 2018-08-16 · in Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)

…with all the latest updates on a new Surface Book 2, I ran into a variation of this open issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/1982. Well that stinks. I'd swear I hit this and it got resolved with the inotify-related patches, but…

comment by gecko · 2018-06-14 · in Dell XPS 13 Review from a lifelong Mac user