I ran into this after falling down the stairs with my laptop (ow!) I did
some research and found that kworker eating lots of CPU can sometimes be
related to hardware problems. I reseated the memory in the laptop and the
problem was resolved. I'm not saying it's a hardware problem, but it
could
> hi all,
>
> i'm playing with a new laptop. tried running ubuntu 11.04 but it kept
> crashing. tried running fedora 15 but it kept crashing. guessed it had
> something to do with the environment so i installed xubuntu. it's
> currently not crashing but i am getting a constant stream of spikes
On 08/23/2011 08:21 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
X + kworker is probably a video driver or display detection problem.
--Rich P.
installed the proprietary ati/amd graphics driver suggested by ubuntu.
now the laptop is usable but i still notice cpu usage spikes around 25%
for no reason other than
X + kworker is probably a video driver or display detection problem.
--Rich P.
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hi all,
i'm playing with a new laptop. tried running ubuntu 11.04 but it kept
crashing. tried running fedora 15 but it kept crashing. guessed it had
something to do with the environment so i installed xubuntu. it's
currently not crashing but i am getting a constant stream of spikes in
cpu
