npm install runs slow on WSL2

[igortas]

Hi,

I have some weird issue for some time, when I remove node_modules and package-lock, and I'm trying install the packages once again....

The install process runs slow and stucks on random packages:

npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/jsonc-parser 12ms (cache hit)
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/@emmetio%2fstream-reader-utils 13ms (cache hit)
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/@emmetio%2fcss-abbreviation 3ms (cache hit)
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/@emmetio%2fabbreviation 4ms (cache hit)
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/vscode-json-languageservice 3ms (cache hit)
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/ajv 8ms (cache hit)
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/pify 2ms (cache hit)
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/strip-bom 3ms (cache hit)
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/json-schema-traverse 9ms (cache hit)
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/fast-deep-equal 11ms (cache hit)
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/require-from-string 11ms (cache hit)
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/fast-uri 12ms (cache hit)
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/crc32-stream 66ms (cache revalidated)
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/crc-32 72ms (cache revalidated)
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/concat-map 75ms (cache revalidated)
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/sprintf-js 4ms (cache hit)
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/p-try 2ms (cache hit)
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/binary-extensions 63ms (cache revalidated)

Overall the process will finish installing the packages, but is very slow... this is not problem with pnpm or yarn...

WSL2 info:

WSL version: 2.3.24.0
Kernel version: 5.15.153.1-2
WSLg version: 1.0.65
MSRDC version: 1.2.5620
Direct3D version: 1.611.1-81528511
DXCore version: 10.0.26100.1-240331-1435.ge-release
Windows version: 10.0.26100.1882

npm info:

  System:
    OS: Linux 5.15 Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS 24.04.1 LTS (Noble Numbat)
    CPU: (16) x64 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12650H
    Memory: 15.34 GB / 19.54 GB
    Container: Yes
    Shell: 5.2.21 - /bin/bash
  Binaries:
    Node: 22.6.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v22.6.0/bin/node
    npm: 10.8.3 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v22.6.0/bin/npm