# WSL environment deadlocks
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/wsl-environment-deadlocks/136785
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [December 21, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wsl-environment-deadlocks/136785 "2019-12-21T17:58:12Z")
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### Author:  [@ramjke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ramjke)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wsl-environment-deadlocks/136785/1 "2019-12-21T17:58:12Z")
> [@Install Discourse on Windows for development](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-install-discourse-on-windows-10-for-development/75149):
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> information_source This tutorial has been tested on Windows 10 and 11. To set up a development environment for Discourse on Windows, you can do it using [Windows Subsystem for Linux](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install-win10) feature. This setup requires the WSL 2 installation. It is only available in Windows 10 builds 18917 or higher. We’ll assume that you already installed [Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (Ubuntu)](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install) on your Windows 10 system. WARNING: Install Ubuntu 18.04, and not 20.04 since some installations will fail on 20.04. For m…
Using this guide I have setup with latest Ubuntu on WSL.
This setup work perfectly for my PHP or Javascript projects. But not with Discourse. I have 2 big problems with it:
1. Discourse on WSL very slow. It takes 4-6 seconds to load a page. The processor i7 8750h loaded for 100% when processing requests.
2. WSL DEADLOCKS every 10-30 minutes while work Discourse. Only restarting the computer is able to get out of the hang.
I’m using puma, ruby 2.4.5, latest discourse build.
## What I try:
- reinstall WSL distro
- ln -s tmp folder outside shared folder
- bundle exec puma --worker 1
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wsl-environment-deadlocks/136785/2 "2019-12-21T23:36:14Z")
WSL is trouble and ultimately a dead end for Microsoft, I recommend you install WSL2 which works fine and is only 5-20% slower than dual booting