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kworker/n:m is what?

Asked by John Winterton

I've noticed in the output from ps -e a lot of these processes, but there doesn't seem to be any local documentation for them. Can I have a reference, please?

Examples:

2829 ? 00:00:08 kworker/0:1
 2952 ? 00:00:08 kworker/1:0
 2962 ? 00:00:00 kworker/0:0

Part of the output from my ps -e command. These processes do not show in System Monitor? They seem to be children of some other process. Perhaps some explanation of the process tree would help.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1630347

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John Winterton (jwinterton) said : 		#2

So, I understand this to be a fixup of some kind of error in interrupt handlers in the Kernel which needs these processes to cool a cascade of faults in the system. As long as it is known and safe, I won't get excited about it any time soon. Thanks.