Using W10Privacy To Boost Ubuntu WSL Performance On Windows 10

The first test up happened to be SQLite which has always been quite slow on Windows especially compared to the bare metal Linux performance. To much surprise with this being my first time using W10Privacy, the performance was substantially better thanks to the tuning by this program albeit with potential security implications.

In a few quick tests on Windows by itself with FIO, the I/O performance has improved albeit not as extreme as in the SQLite database workload.

In the BlogBench test that tries to resemble running a web server on the system, the W10Privacy performance was similar to SQLite and now marking a huge difference in performance.

In the case of the synthetic IOzone benchmark, there wasn't much of a change. It seems most of the I/O benefits with W10Privacy come from database-type workloads with many small frequent writes.