How can I reduce the consumption of the `vmmem` process?

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I installed docker on windows home which uses WSL2 as a backend. However, since doing this a process called vmmem seems to be consistently consuming a lot of computational resources. I ran docker stop $(docker ps -aq) to kill all running containers (there were 12 – oops) which has improved the issue significantly. However, even after closing docker down vmmem is still taking ~1.5 – 2Gb of ram and ~20% CPU. Since there are no longer any containers running, shouldn’t the resource consumption of vmmem be minimal? How can I reduce the consumption of the vmmem process?

Answer

Daniiel B is on the money. To turn off Vmmem simply go into Powershell or whatever terminal you like to use under admin rights and enter the command wsl --shutdown, when your done with playing in wsl1/2.

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Source : Link , Question Author : CiaranWelsh , Answer Author : M.S. Dousti

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