How to speed up the hexo command in WSL?

[Daucloud]

I found using the hexo command (no mather hexo cl, hexo g, hexo s even if the hexo --version😥) much slower in WSL than Windows cmd, which is quite annoying. Why is it much slower using WSL, and how can I speed up the hexo commands in WSL?

[yoshinorin]

@Daucloud

It may be improved by either or both of the following.

1. Filesystem

Are you placing your Hexo project in a directory that starts with \\wsl$\ (or ~) ? If you are placing it in a directory that starts with /mnt, the performance will degrade because files will be across different file systems.

See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/filesystems#file-storage-and-performance-across-file-systems

2. Memory

You can allocate more memory to WSL using the .wslconf file.

See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config#example-wslconf-file

[Daucloud]

Thanks a lot!!