[arch-general] Way too much kworkers

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Dimitris Zervas <dzervas at dzervas.gr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've googled a bit and saw that other people have this problem too, but
> without solution.

What do these processes do? Slow down you computer, eat up RAM ...?


> They had maybe 8 or 10 kworker processes. After 2
> suspends, I have 172.
>
> ps -ef | grep kworker | wc -l
> 173

$ pgrep -c kworker
7


>
> (one of the line is grep's process).
> Is there any solution?