Is it safe to remove kworker from the system?
It is not something that can be safely removed from the system in any way, and is completely unrelated to nepomuk or KDE (except in that these programs may make system calls, which may require the kernel to do something).
What is kworker and what does it do?
“kworker” is a placeholder process for kernel worker threads, which perform most of the actual processing for the kernel, especially in cases where there are interrupts, timers, I/O, etc.
What is kworker and why is it hogging so much CPU?
I have thought about filing a bug but since I haven’t even found any reasonable explanation on what kworker is I figured I should find out first. “kworker” is a placeholder process for kernel worker threads, which perform most of the actual processing for the kernel, especially in cases where there are interrupts, timers, I/O, etc.
What does kworker in Ubuntu stand for?
“kworker” is a placeholder process for kernel worker threads, which perform most of the actual processing for the kernel, especially in cases where there are interrupts, timers, I/O, etc. These typically correspond to the vast majority of any allocated “system” time to running processes.
Why does kworker use so much of my CPU?
At moments it uses almost half my CPU. Also, strangely enough it seems to affect my USB ports; whenever I plug in an USB drive, the process kworker goes into hyperdrive, leaving me unable to work. I have thought about filing a bug but since I haven’t even found any reasonable explanation on what kworker is I figured I should find out first.
What does kworker mean in the Linux kernel?
What is kworker? kworker means a Linux kernel process doing “work” (processing system calls). You can have several of them in your process list: kworker/0:1 is the one on your first CPU core, kworker/1:1 the one on your second etc.. Why does kworker hog your CPU?