WSL2 create GBs of swap file using docker or apache2

[XJTLUmedia]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22631.2861]

WSL Version

2.0.9.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

11.2.0

Distro Version

Ubuntu 22.04

Other Software

Docker version 24.0.7, build afdd53b installed on WSL2

Repro Steps

mkdir plane-selfhost

cd plane-selfhost

curl -fsSL -o setup.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/makeplane/plane/master/deploy/selfhost/install.sh

chmod +x setup.sh

Expected Behavior

It shouldn't create so many swap.vhdx

Actual Behavior

it constantly create swap.vhdx, according to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config Swap storage is disk-based RAM used when memory demand exceeds limit on hardware device. Everytime I use localhost(starting the service), it create a new swap.vhdx. Why WSL2 is creating swap file more than once, and keep demanding memory?

Can I delete all these swap.vhdx?

Diagnostic Logs

No response

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[isolitude]

The same problem. Every time I open docker, it will create two random-name filefolder in AppData\Local\Temp with swap.vdhx in it

[OneBlue]

@XJTLUmedia: These swap VHD's are safe to delete. I'm curious about why they don't get automatically deleted though. Can you share /logs of a repro where the file is left behind ?

/logs

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Hello! Could you please provide more logs to help us better diagnose your issue?

To collect WSL logs, download and execute collect-wsl-logs.ps1 in an administrative powershell prompt:

Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/WSL/master/diagnostics/collect-wsl-logs.ps1" -OutFile collect-wsl-logs.ps1
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force
.\collect-wsl-logs.ps1

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[lzyang2000]

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