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Alright, let me try to figure out which category this bug report falls into. The user mentioned that the QEMU process is using a lot of memory on the host, specifically when running a Windows guest with 128GB of memory. They noticed that while the VM's internal usage is low, the host's memory is high, and this doesn't happen with Linux guests. They're asking if there's a way to trigger the host to reclaim this memory.
Looking at the categories provided: performance seems like a good fit because it's about resource usage—specifically memory consumption by QEMU. The issue isn't about translation errors or assembly lowering, so mistranslation or assembly aren't relevant here. It's not related to devices, graphics, sockets, or network directly. KVM is part of the hypervisor, but this seems more about how memory is managed rather than the hypervisor itself. Boot, VNC, debug, files, permissions—none of these seem applicable. The problem isn't about kernel modules or peripherals either.
So, the main issue here is high memory usage on the host side when running a Windows VM with QEMU. This points to a performance-related bug because it's affecting resource allocation and possibly causing inefficiency in how QEMU handles memory for different guest operating systems.
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