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
UPDATE: It most likely was a Winboat process that started up every time :p
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.
OP may have some confusion about what dual-boot means. WinBoat running in the background is the best plausible explanation for this, IMO.
Yeah, it’s almost certainly a VM.
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.
Yeah it’s most likely that! Thanks
you should update the OP with this information
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, runpstree -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.
Fuck?
to me it sounds like something trying to hide in a windows system (where a process like that wouldn’t stand out). but it running in your linux system probably means it sits in something other than your storage (like your boot sector or bios).
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Seemed to be
/proc/4212but its gone after I killed the process./proc is a special directory that is populated by procfs, a special kind of filesystem. It contains information about running processes. Each sub-directory contains information for one process. When you launch an application, it’s assigned some process id. Every time you launch the application, it gets a different process id.
You can try and find the application by running
which windows. If the application is in your PATH, that tells where it is.Use
ps -efto find the source of the file.
C’est une très bonne nouvelle, et un effet bénéfique du marasme dans lequel nous nous trouvons actuellement.
Maybe it’s fastboot and windows is actually running in the background?
