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 <[email protected]> wrote: > and I always thought it had to do with kde. > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:14 PM, James Mcphee <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ACPI interrupt threads, as far as I'm aware. Different ones for >> different things. >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:26 AM, <[email protected]> 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] >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> James McPhee >> [email protected] >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James McPhee [email protected]
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