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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

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

out of curiosity, which directory is this weird thing located in?

[–] thermogel@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Seemed to be /proc/4212 but its gone after I killed the process.

[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

/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.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Use ps -ef to find the source of the file.