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
    42·
    1 day 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.

    • wendigolibre@lemmy.zip
      16·
      1 day 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
        4·
        1 day 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.

      • Classy Hatter@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        13 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.