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WSL uses a lot of CPU usage since the last upgrade with WSLg on Windows 10 #909

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@purrutia

Windows build number:

10.0.19044.2311

Your Distribution version:

20.04

Your WSL versions:

WSL version: 1.0.0.0
Kernel version: 5.15.74.2
WSLg version: 1.0.47
MSRDC version: 1.2.3575
Direct3D version: 1.606.4
DXCore version: 10.0.25131.1002-220531-1700.rs-onecore-base2-hyp
Windows version: 10.0.19044.2311

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open task manager on windows
  2. Open Windows Terminal with WSL
  3. Just wait

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Expected behavior:

Not a lot of CPU usage since I'm not currently using Graphical applications (but I want to use it from time to time)

Actual behavior:

CPU usage start to rise up to 70% and Im just using tmux and neovim.

with
[wsl2]
guiApplications=false

on .wslconfig fix the issue... but I don't want that :)

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