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.
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> and I always thought it had to do with kde.
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:14 PM, James Mcphee <jmcphe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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