<div dir="ltr">I did too, until a friend of mine set me straight. There are some interesting articles on kworker running away and causing havok with kernels a couple years old. Had everyone in a tizzy.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
and I always thought it had to do with kde.<br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:14 PM, James Mcphee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmcphe@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmcphe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">ACPI interrupt threads, as far as I'm aware. Different ones for different things.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:26 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@actionline.com" target="_blank">joe@actionline.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">What is "kworker" and why does 'ps -ef' show multiple entries?<br>
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$ ps -ef | fgrep kworker<br>
root 57 2 0 Jan24 ? 00:00:02 [kworker/u:3]<br>
root 58 2 0 Jan24 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/u:4]<br>
root 2037 2 0 10:03 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/3:2]<br>
root 2267 2 0 10:49 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/0:2]<br>
root 2313 2 0 10:54 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/0:0]<br>
root 23855 2 0 Mar25 ? 00:00:03 [kworker/2:1]<br>
root 27073 2 0 Mar25 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/2:2]<br>
root 30049 2 0 Mar25 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/1:1]<br>
root 30109 2 0 Mar25 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/1:0]<br>
root 32039 2 0 00:38 ? 00:00:16 [kworker/3:0]<br>
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