Windows 10 WSL vs. Linux Performance For Early 2018

[Michael]

Why were results from several systems missing in some tests? Clean Linux for Dolphin for instance?

Missing dependencies on Clear. Clear's package archive isn't quite as extensive as other distros.

[losko]

https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermai...ry/029148.html

Thanks, it's nice to hear that. So Microsoft officially asked Allan McRae to join the project.
The glibc issue seems to be fixed too...
I successfully tried to replace ubuntu with archlinux on WSL (old way) and I was able to run graphical stuff using vcxsrv.

[gregzeng]

Ubuntu 1804 will be the next long term release soon. Hopefully it will change these results again.
Ubuntu & Debian based operating systems can very easily use the very latest of any Linux kernels. These Linux kernels are updated every several days, with better bug-fixes, features & optimizations from "The Linux Foundation".
It might be too much for just one organization, or just one-person to test so many updates of the Linux kernels. However, to satisfy our collective curiosities, are the newest kernels much better in the benchtest results?

[Royi]

Can you run GUI based applications in WSL?

[losko]

Can you run GUI based applications in WSL?

Yes.
You have to install VcxSrv on Windows side and export the environment variable "export DISPLAY=:0" on Linux/WSL side.
Screenshot

[randomizer]

I/O is still atrocious. How am I meant to finish npm install before the end of the day?

[Filiprino]

Windows I/O (filesystems) are very bad.
Microbenchmarks don't help to show scalability of this. We know NT is very bad at intensive multithreaded/multiprocess workloads. But I am not aware of any GNU/Linux ready benchmarks with big enough datasets to generate a great number of processes/threads.

Yes.
You have to install VcxSrv on Windows side and export the environment variable "export DISPLAY=:0" on Linux/WSL side.
Screenshot

You mean GNU/WSL...

[PhilT]

Hi there,

These are really interesting and useful results. It confirms my own experience trying to switch to WSL for development a while ago. I'm now using Docker with a customised Alpine Linux build. Can anyone comment on whether it's worth me investing time to discover if Clear Linux would be even quicker? I'm a Ruby on Rails and React developer. Running tests in Rails and JS, installing NPM packages and Ruby gems, working with code in Vim are all done through Docker on a daily basis. Getting a speed improvement is always useful. And I do love playing with new stuff! I guess the other problem could be supported packages on Clear.

[nijave]

Curious to see benchmarks with Windows Defender set to exclude the WSL folder. It seems this is a pretty huge I/O bottleneck

Details https://medium.com/@leandrw/speeding...e-c3537dd03c74