WSL2 Memory Sizing - Increasing or decreasing the memory available to WSL2

The Windows Subsystem for Linux operates as a virtual machine that can dynamically grow the amount of RAM to a maximum set at startup time. Microsoft sets a default maximum RAM available to 50% of the physical memory and a swap-space that is 1/4 of the maximum WSL RAM. You can scale those numbers up or down to allocate more or less RAM to the Linux instance.

[patrickwalchshofer]

thank you for the video! I recently bought a new machine and decided for Windows 11 with Ubuntu WSL - I thought already it was the wrong decision and I should have ordered the machine with a Linux Setup. You saved my day!

[koushiksen]

Naive question: I have 32 GB RAM. I am running a Python code that requires 30 GB of memory. So I made a .wslconfig file that uses 24 GB of memory and 8 GB of swap. In the future, there is no certainty that I will not need more memory to run a different code. Can I increase the swap space to 64 GB and assume that WSL can use my SSD space as a swap, like in Linux?

[martelljohnson]

How would i set my hard disk as the home directory will i be using the same steps .wslconfig

[lean.rp_]

Which is the windows home directory? Because c:\Users\myname does not work for me

[peacebeuponhimever]

I dont understand.. is the memory in wslconfig file 50% (default) of hardware memory or RAM>