Please post your Windows CPU usage (as shown in MacOS activity monitor)

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  1. MatthiasE5

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    Hello,

    to all Windows 11 on M1 users:
    Could you please post what CPU percentage is shown (+/-5%) in MacOS when Windows is idling?
    Please mention:
    1. RAM (GB) installed on your Mac

    2.1 in parallels settings, RAM (GB) assigned to VM
    2.2 in parallels settings, amount of Cores that you assigned to VM
    2.3 in parallels settings, advanced: adaptive hypervisor y/n
    2.4 in parallels settings, options, optimization: E/A: slider position

    Please make sure Windows Task Manager ist NOT running.
    3. In Mac OS activity monitor: RAM, RAM VM-compressed (last column), and RAM physical (GB) used by Windows VM
    4. In Mac OS activity monitor: CPU % used by Windows VM

    Now start Windows Task Manager please.
    5. In Windows Task Manager: name process in Windows task manager that uses most RAM in GB, and how much it is.
    6. In Windows Task Manager: name process in Windows task manager that uses most CPU in %, and how much it is.

    Please make sure you don't have significant programs running in Windows.

    My own data:
    1. 16GB

    2.1 5 GB
    2.2 4 cores assigned
    2.3 hypervisor YES
    2.4 inbetween average and no limit

    (no windows taskmanager active)
    3. 11 GB (VM-compressed: 5.5GB) , 0.2 GB
    4. 40-45 % CPU (!)

    (windows taskmanager active, data FROM windows task manager---> )
    5. anti malware service executable 0.08 GB
    6. task manager itself: 3% CPU
     

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