[praash]

That's just one part of the issue - even after forcefully dropping Linux's caches, WSL has been unable to reclaim the memory back reliably. There has been a recent update that claims to finally fix this.

You might find this package helpful: https://github.com/arkane-systems/wsl-drop-cache

[Dylan16807]

It's also really annoying that "drop caches" seems to be the only interface here. No way to simply limit it.