{"id":99265,"date":"2018-07-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=99265"},"modified":"2019-03-13T00:40:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T07:40:33","slug":"20180717-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20180717-00\/?p=99265","title":{"rendered":"What is this vmmem program that is using up all my CPU and memory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say you&#8217;re minding your own business and you discover that this process called <code>vmmem<\/code> is using up all your memory and CPU. What is this guy and how do you make him stop? <\/p>\n<p>The <code>vmmem<\/code> process is a virtual process that the system synthesizes to represent the memory and CPU resources consumed by your virtual machines. In other words, if you see <code>vmmem<\/code> consuming a lot of memory and CPU resources, then that means your virtual machines are consuming a lot of memory and CPU resources. <\/p>\n<p>If you want to make it stop, shut down your virtual machines. <\/p>\n<p><b>Bonus chatter<\/b>: Strictly speaking, what it actually represents is the resources of the <i>other<\/i> virtual machines, since Windows itself is running in a virtual machine under the hypervisor. You may not be explicitly using the hypervisor, but <a HREF=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20180130-00\/?p=97925\">some other features are built on top of the hypervisor<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s where your virtual machine resource usage goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-99265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>That&#8217;s where your virtual machine resource usage goes.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}