WSL Keeps crashing when using VSCode

Question

Using a blanco Ubuntu WSL installation from Windows Store, running VSCode from there with repository in the /home folder. No WSL extensions installed.

It is working for some time, but eventually always leads to WSL crashing. VSCode cannot connect, because I can also not connect anymore to the WSL installation by terminal.

Then I end up using wsl --shutdown in cmd and restarting Docker to make it work again for some time. But it keeps coming back.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The problem is that WSL is running out of memory.

Either extend the memory to WSL in .wslconfig or figure out ways to limit memory usage.

In my case I quit using Docker and ran the application without it.