Can I safely shutdown WSL2 without stopping services like mysql and apache?

Question

I am using the classic LAMP development environment with WSL2(Ubuntu) on Windows 10.

I would like to shutdown WSL2 after finishing my work in order to be able to free resources (the Vmmem process can be resource consuming).

Can I safely shutdown WSL2 (wsl --shutdown) without stopping services like mysql and apache, or should I stop them manually before shutting down WSL2?

Does it matter? Is there any good practice or could something go wrong? I would not like to screw up my environment (databases or apache, etc.)

Solution

I would not like to screw up my environment (databases or apache, etc.)

For safety you should shut down those services first.

You should be able to write a small batch file that shuts everything down in the right order.