On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 22:16:53 +0300 Dimitris Zervas <dzervas@dzervas.gr> 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 line is grep's process). Is there any solution?
These [kworker] processes were probably created during the suspend/resume phase and have not been killed yet. If they don't consume CPU time, you have nothing to be concerned about. From Documentation/workqueue.txt: "Keeping idle workers around doesn't cost other than the memory space for kthreads, so cmwq holds onto idle ones for a while before killing them." However, I don't know how long "a while" is... Cheers, -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D