windows subsystem for linux – WSL2, dmesg filled with ‘mini_init (119): drop_caches: 1’

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Every few minutes I see a the message ‘mini_init (119): drop_caches: 1’ in dmesg. (e.g. every 30 sec + (x * 60 sec) looks like)

[Thu Feb 20 22:56:07 CET 2025] mini_init (119): drop_caches: 1
[Thu Feb 20 22:57:37 CET 2025] mini_init (119): drop_caches: 1
[Thu Feb 20 23:01:07 CET 2025] mini_init (119): drop_caches: 1
[Thu Feb 20 23:02:37 CET 2025] mini_init (119): drop_caches: 1
[Thu Feb 20 23:06:07 CET 2025] mini_init (119): drop_caches: 1
[Thu Feb 20 23:07:37 CET 2025] mini_init (119): drop_caches: 1
[Thu Feb 20 23:11:07 CET 2025] mini_init (119): drop_caches: 1
[Thu Feb 20 23:12:37 CET 2025] mini_init (119): drop_caches: 1

WSL version: 2.2.4.0
Kernel version: 5.15.153.1-2
WSLg version: 1.0.61
MSRDC version: 1.2.5326
Direct3D version: 1.611.1-81528511
DXCore version: 10.0.26091.1-240325-1447.ge-release
Windows version: 10.0.22631.4037
  • Looked with ps -ef if ‘119’ is PID of a running process, but this is not the case.
  • A reboot doesn’t solve the issue.

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