I confirm as well that this problem persists on Ubuntu 13.10, or more precisely : [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.11.0-13-generic (buildd@roseapple) (gcc version 4.8.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.8.1-10ubuntu8) ) #20-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 23 07:38:26 UTC 2013 (Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20-generic 3.11.6)
It appears once in a while - about every second day. Last time it appeared it was today when I plugged in my external Hard-Drive and logged in afterwards to my allready opened session. If this happens, there is not much to do about, just reboot and the problem goes away then but I'm quite reluctant to do it. Tried to kill it or relaunch the x-server as I thought this process is part of it. But that seems not to be the case. What are kworkers ? What are they good for? Do they manage the CPU? This might be the case as I see 3 times 8 of them enumerated from 0 to 7 and four prefixed with u this would correspond the 8 virtual cores and the 4 real ones present on my CPU. Might it be possible that there is a race-condition on one of the cores that puts it to an endless-loop (instead of just letting it die or blocking it for example)? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/887793 Title: Kworker constantly taking about 100% CPU To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/887793/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
