On Sat, 2019-04-06 at 20:26 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Tom Horsley writes: > > > Here's a weird one I just noticed: I've been using a > > Windows 10 virtual machine to run my tax software. > > I've got it displayed in virt-viewer and all is > > well, then I close the virt-viewer window and > > leave the KVM running. About 5 minutes later I > > see a cpu suddenly pegged at 100%. I run top and see > > that qemu is the culprit. I start virt-viewer > > again, and it goes back to normal. > > > > Anyone else seen this? Why would nobody looking at > > it make it go crazy I wonder? > > Because you're using Microsoft Windows 10. Its built-in spyware and > telemetry, that runs all the time and needs to report to Redmond, isn't cost- > free and is pretty hard on the CPU.
True, however QEMU-KVM also consumes significant CPU even when the Windows guest is paused: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1638289 poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
