Has anyone experienced *extreme slowness" issues after a new local install? I just completed a fresh installation am trying to create a theme. I’m not super familiar with Ubuntu/WSL so maybe I’m missing something obvious? local machine, Windows 11 with 8GB ram, WSL via VS Code, Ubuntu bare, SSD Us…

[image] Annette A.: local machine, Windows 11 with 8GB ram, WSL via VS Code, Ubuntu bare, SSD Can you share memory stats while running this? 8GB is already tight for Windows 11 alone, if you add the whole Linux VM to run WSL2, and the PG/Redis/Unicorn/Ember processes it may cause you to swap …

Eep. Good call. This doesn’t seem great. [image] [image]

lmao, chrome enjoys being a good memory hog

If you are keen on developing against a local instance, I’d look into dual-booting Linux if you can afford the disk space. It’s what I do personally. Otherwise your best bet is using Theme Creator, create and show themes without installing Discourse! .

I’ve only a Discourse small dev instance for comparison, and WSL already uses 4GB. However, the actual usage can be much higher depending on the activity in it. [image] I would definitively follow Falco’s suggestion if you can. On a side note, you can adjust the WSL configuration (such as limite…

[image] Arkshine: However, the actual usage can be much higher depending on the activity in it. It shouldn’t be, the amount WSL uses is just reserved for itself, and AFAIK, it won’t go over it’s reservation…

I’m not sure. Maybe it was a bug before, but I usually never turn off my computer, and for some reason, it could go up to 10GB (or more). But yeah, by default, from what I see in the documentation, 50% of your total memory can be used. (I have 64 GB, so I guess that’s the reason).

Very, very slow on local machine (fresh install)

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annetters (Annette A.) April 2, 2024, 1:12am 9

Hey all. Thank you for your suggestions. I ended up developing the theme separately via theme creator and testing components on a hosted install. Guess I’m shopping for a new laptop with more membory this year!

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Very, very slow on local machine (fresh install)

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