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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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.