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

[James Mcphee]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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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