When I start my pc, (Nobara 43) Memory is up to 70% usage. I dual boot, but use Windows like 5% of the time. I have a Swap partition (64gb), but it shows 0b usage. Is it safe to kill the windows process? Can anyone shed some light into whats going on? I was starting to think this is sketchy lol

  • Victoria@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    34·
    11 hours ago

    Do you use WinBoat? Because this is exactly how my WinBoat Windows VM presents using top. htop shows the qemu-system command, and btop shows both.

      • Classy Hatter@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        5 hours ago

        If you want to confirm that, launch one or all of your WinBoat apps. While they are running, run “pidof windows”. If that gave some pids, run “pstree -sp <pid>”. That command shows the parent processes, with their pids, of the <pid>. WinBoat probably should be among the parents of the “windows” process.

    • wendigolibre@lemmy.zip
      13·
      9 hours ago

      OP may have some confusion about what dual-boot means. WinBoat running in the background is the best plausible explanation for this, IMO.

      • thermogel@lemmy.mlOP
        2·
        6 hours ago

        I do use dual boot, but still have Winboat on the Linux side because some windows specific apps that aren’t demanding. The ones that are demanding in performance are the ones that I use on Windows natively.