Stopping Vmmem from Using Ram
I Am Using Docker to Run Some Containers on Windows 10, and When I Was Done I Noticed an Application Named Vmmem Was Using Almost All of My Ram: ~12Gb...
I am using Docker to run some containers on Windows 10, and when I was done I noticed an application named vmmem was using almost all of my ram: ~12GB. According to this it is because of Docker and it said if I closed all docker images and containers it would stop. So I stopped and removed all Docker containers and images by the following batch file:
@echo off
FOR /f "tokens=*" %%i IN ('docker ps -aq') DO docker rm %%i
FOR /f "tokens=*" %%i IN ('docker images --format "{{.ID}}"') DO docker rmi %%i
from:
so when you type docker container ls -a & docker image ls -a they both show nothing. However in Task Manager I still see vmmem using about 4 GB of RAM. What else can I do to stop this? Thanks.
5 Answers
I found the simplest and easiest way to shut down Vmmem is to go into Windows powershell / cmd and enter: wsl --shutdown. This shuts it down.
Create a %UserProfile%\.wslconfig file, and add the following configuration to it:
[wsl2]
memory=6GB # How much memory to assign to the WSL2 VM.
processors=5 # How many processors to assign to the WSL2 VM.
Then restart WSL2, by running the following command in PowerShell:
Restart-Service LxssManager
Source:
to check out all running distros on your WSL
wsl -l -v
to terminate the ones in use
wsl -t {insert distro}
more here
Try this way
- open start menu -> find 'Hyper-V Manager' just by typing
- stop the virtual machine -> right-click -> turn off (look at the picture)
Go to Run > Type "services"
Find docker and click stop
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