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