Re: Why does 'ps -ef' show multiple "kworker" entries?

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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: Why does 'ps -ef' show multiple "kworker" entries?
and I always thought it had to do with kde.
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:14 PM, James Mcphee <> wrote:

> ACPI interrupt threads, as far as I'm aware. Different ones for different
> things.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:26 AM, <> 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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