setting max RAM limit in .wslconfig doesn't work

[danieleCTM]

Windows Version

Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (10.0.22631.3007)

WSL Version

0.0.0.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

5.10.16.3

Distro Version

Ubuntu 22.04

Other Software

No response

Repro Steps

• Shutdown all wsl instances using wsl --shutdown
• then i execute: Write-output "[wsl2] memory=48GB" >> "${env:USERPROFILE}.wslconfig"
• A .wslconfig file with the content "[wsl2] memory=48GB" is created inside the user folder
• i run wsl, then htop

Expected Behavior

To have the max RAM limit set to 48, not the standard 32GB (%50 of the avaiable ram?)

Actual Behavior

Memory limit is always 32GB (i have 64GB on my system)

Diagnostic Logs

No response

[github-actions]

Hi I'm an AI powered bot that finds similar issues based off the issue title.

Please view the issues below to see if they solve your problem, and if the issue describes your problem please consider closing this one and thumbs upping the other issue to help us prioritize it. Thank you!

Open similar issues:

• I can not allocate ram memory for WSL2 (#9786), similarity score: 0.79

Closed similar issues:

• .wslconfig memory value not respected when set to 16GB (#7099), similarity score: 0.84
• Why .wslconfig settings dosen't effect , when i limit the memory used by wsl2 ? (#6990), similarity score: 0.84
• WSL recognizes only half of my available RAM (#6322), similarity score: 0.76
• WSL2 consumes massive amount of memory and ignores .wslconfig (#7851), similarity score: 0.74

Note: You can give me feedback by thumbs upping or thumbs downing this comment.

[danieleCTM]

solved