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Deprecate the pageReporting setting. #2332

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Deprecate the pageReporting setting.
zwJimRaynor Sep 16, 2025
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Delete the pageReporting setting from the example.
zwJimRaynor Sep 16, 2025
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Update WSL/wsl-config.md
craigloewen-msft Oct 6, 2025
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Expand Up @@ -233,7 +233,6 @@ This file can contain the following options that affect the VM that powers any W
| `safeMode` | boolean | `false` | Run WSL in "Safe Mode" which disables many features and is intended to be used to recover distributions that are in bad states. Only available for Windows 11 and WSL version 0.66.2+. |
| `swap` | size | 25% of memory size on Windows rounded up to the nearest GB | How much swap space to add to the WSL 2 VM, 0 for no swap file. Swap storage is disk-based RAM used when memory demand exceeds limit on hardware device. |
| `swapFile` | path | `%Temp%\swap.vhdx` | An absolute Windows path to the swap virtual hard disk. |
| `pageReporting` | boolean | `true` | Setting enables Windows to reclaim unused memory allocated to WSL 2 virtual machine. |
| `guiApplications` | boolean | `true` | Boolean to turn on or off support for GUI applications ([WSLg](https://github.com/microsoft/wslg)) in WSL.|
| `debugConsole`¹ | boolean | `false` | Boolean to turn on an output console Window that shows the contents of `dmesg` upon start of a WSL 2 distro instance.|
| `maxCrashDumpCount` | number | `10` | Set the maximum number of crash dump files that will be retained for debugging purposes. The default number retained by WSL is 10. When this limit is exceeded, older crash dumps will be automatically deleted to make room for new ones. Setting a max can help with reducing the amount of disk space used by these crash files. |
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# Sets swapfile path location, default is %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Temp\swap.vhdx
swapfile=C:\\temp\\wsl-swap.vhdx

# Disable page reporting so WSL retains all allocated memory claimed from Windows and releases none back when free
pageReporting=false

# Turn on default connection to bind WSL 2 localhost to Windows localhost. Setting is ignored when networkingMode=mirrored
localhostforwarding=true

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