ACPI interrupt threads, as far as I'm aware. Different ones for different
things.
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:26 AM, <
joe@actionline.com> wrote:
> What is "kworker" and why does 'ps -ef' show multiple entries?
>
> $ ps -ef | fgrep kworker
> root 57 2 0 Jan24 ? 00:00:02 [kworker/u:3]
> root 58 2 0 Jan24 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/u:4]
> root 2037 2 0 10:03 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/3:2]
> root 2267 2 0 10:49 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/0:2]
> root 2313 2 0 10:54 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/0:0]
> root 23855 2 0 Mar25 ? 00:00:03 [kworker/2:1]
> root 27073 2 0 Mar25 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/2:2]
> root 30049 2 0 Mar25 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/1:1]
> root 30109 2 0 Mar25 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/1:0]
> root 32039 2 0 00:38 ? 00:00:16 [kworker/3:0]
>
>
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