Any other WSL2 users? Slow file copying speed when plotting.

[athena9]

The speed of this thing is phenomenal at ~8 minutes including dumping to disk.

I'm running this in a docker container against WSL2 and hitting bottlenecks (probably unrelated to bladebit itself).

I can copy files from WSL2 to Windows at about 500MB/s (vs 2GB/s win-win)... but if Bladebit is actively plotting that speed drops to ~10MB/s. I can't move the plots fast enough.

Any thoughts on why file copying speeds drop so dramatically when Bladebit is plotting?

[athena9]

The answer turns out to be use WSL1 if you're going down a VM route.

WSL2 is faster in many ways, but terrible at cross platform IO.

Overall speed improvement per finished plot is ~30% on WSL1 vs WSL2.