Re: qemu goes to 100%?

[Ed Greshko]

On 4/7/19 12:27 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> 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?

Well, mine also went to 100%.  But, then I found out it was running a Bit Defender Scan. 
And, it was also downloading updates.

I went to sleep and later found it had rebooted itself after the updates and back to "normal".