Xentop shows windows 11 qube twice + high cpu on idle

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Is this normal???
I have one line in xentop where it actually says WindowsNew with appropriate memory I assigned to it, and then a second line with the WindowsNew and then memory of 0.9%…

But the CPU is the most critical part for me. On IDLE the first WindowsNew constantly above 50%, on average around 75% actually!!! (I assigned 2 vcpus to the qube) and the second line around 5-10%.
All the rest of my qubes are linux based and I don’t see anything like that, and I have 0-1% usage on them on idle.

Can someone help please???

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I have one line in xentop where it actually says WindowsNew with appropriate memory I assigned to it, and then a second line with the WindowsNew and then memory of 0.9%…

The second one is probably WindowsNew-dm, a Device Model Stub Domain. They get created for each HVM qube you have and it’s normal. Making sure you're not a bot!

But the CPU is the most critical part for me. On IDLE the first WindowsNew constantly above 50%, on average around 75% actually!!! (I assigned 2 vcpus to the qube) and the second line around 5-10%.

If I had to guess that’s just Windows being a shit OS, as always.

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No! That’s the thing… it’s WindowsNew TWICE! And it’s WITHOUT QWT!!!

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@atrate is right - its’ the stub domain and the normal qube. You see
this with all HVM.

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OMG!!! it has a tiny “-” at the end… without “-dm”… yes you were right, thanks!

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Could be, but I tried windows 10 and it’s not like that…
If anyone has windows 11 please share

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The rest of the name is probably cut off in the xentop window.

Could be, but I tried windows 10 and it’s not like that…

Windows 11 is famously slopcoded and badly optimised:

https://winaero.com/windows-11-start-menu-revealed-as-resource-heavy-react-native-app-sparks-performance-concerns/

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I think you are most likey right, even through it’s not helping to deal with the windows qube

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@daffi_m I’ve attempted to test out the idle power usage of my Windows 11 HVM with QWT, and, with 4 cores assigned it pretty much never falls below 50% usage (50% of one core), often jumping to 100-150% randomly.

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Ohh thanks for that!!! I was starting to think it was something on my end.

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Are you using it offline? If no, can you share how you do it please?

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What exactly would you like to know? :slight_smile:

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Just how to securely connect it so I could update it. I also opened this topic for that How should I connect a windows qube to the internet securely

But now I’m so not so sure if I even should do that… :grin: I just heard there are unpatched zero day exploits… Three Microsoft Defender Zero-Days Actively Exploited; Two Still Unpatched

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And now I remembered that I disabled that defender permanently so it won’t eat too much of the system’s resources… :grin: