Re: [arch-general] Way too much kworkers

2013-10-02 Thread Dimitris Zervas
Ok, thank you for your answers! It seems that I should dive into the linux kernel and learn more about it. Arch community proven very helpful once again, thank you very much.

Re: [arch-general] Way too much kworkers

2013-10-01 Thread Anatol Pomozov
Hi On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Dimitris Zervas wrote: > Um, I have a very powerful pc, so I get no slow downs. i7-3820 with 16GB of > ram. So if your system works fine then I am not sure what you are complaining about. On a bit more serious note. The threading in Linux kernel is quite effec

Re: [arch-general] Way too much kworkers

2013-10-01 Thread Pedro Emílio Machado de Brito
2013/10/1 Dimitris Zervas : > Um, I have a very powerful pc, so I get no slow downs. i7-3820 with 16GB of > ram. > htop reports no CPU usage, but free -m reports some interesting memory > consumption. > free -m > total usedfree sharedbuffers > cached > Mem:

Re: [arch-general] Way too much kworkers

2013-10-01 Thread Dimitris Zervas
Um, I have a very powerful pc, so I get no slow downs. i7-3820 with 16GB of ram. htop reports no CPU usage, but free -m reports some interesting memory consumption. free -m total usedfree sharedbuffers cached Mem: 16030 15868161

Re: [arch-general] Way too much kworkers

2013-10-01 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> -Original Message- > From: arch-general [mailto:arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org] On Behalf > Of Karol Blazewicz > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Dimitris Zervas wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've googled a bit and saw that other people have this problem too, > > but without solution.

Re: [arch-general] Way too much kworkers

2013-10-01 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 22:16:53 +0300 Dimitris Zervas wrote: > Hello, > > I've googled a bit and saw that other people have this problem too, but > without solution. They had maybe 8 or 10 kworker processes. After 2 > suspends, I have 172. > > ps -ef | grep kworker | wc -l > 173 > > (one of the li

Re: [arch-general] Way too much kworkers

2013-10-01 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Dimitris Zervas wrote: > Hello, > > I've googled a bit and saw that other people have this problem too, but > without solution. What do these processes do? Slow down you computer, eat up RAM ...? > They had maybe 8 or 10 kworker processes. After 2 > suspends, I h

[arch-general] Way too much kworkers

2013-10-01 Thread Dimitris Zervas
Hello, I've googled a bit and saw that other people have this problem too, but without solution. They had maybe 8 or 10 kworker processes. After 2 suspends, I have 172. ps -ef | grep kworker | wc -l 173 (one of the line is grep's process). Is there any solution?