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I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Samsung laptop alongside Windows 7. Whenever I use Ubuntu (even when its idle) kworker uses almost 90% of one of 8-cores. Even though it doesn't really affect ...

Possible Duplicate: Kworker, what is it and why is it hogging so much CPU? I have a process named kworker which is continuously consuming 100% of the CPU's computing capacity. I have tried ...

I updated from ubuntu 13.10 to 14.04. I have a quad core, and one core is pegged at 100% usage because of kworker. I know that kworker generally is doing things on behalf of the kernel, but I don't ...

In Ubuntu 16.04, kworker has a very high CPU usage. It is almost 80% all time and the fan runs at high speed and makes a loud noise. I do all commands in this link but that wasn't useful. Now what I ...

Exactly what are these services / programs. Apparently they make my system almost useless. Any one of them at point of time uses at least 50% CPU and continuous access to HDD. I'm not exactly sure ...

The magic SysRq key does not work on my Ubuntu 16.04 desktop. I imagine it's now disabled by default. My attempts to enable it did not work, and the only thing Google finds is a 2007 forum post from ...

I installed Ubuntu 13.10 on a MacBook Pro 10,1. However, after installing, the kworker process consumes over 90% of CPU usage. I tried the following: (Suggested in this answer) Execute grep . -r /sys/...

When I plug in my power cable -- sometimes -- Ubuntu 13.10 immediately slows down in just about every way. This has been happening for months, but I only recently finally connected the dots, in part ...

My Ubuntu 16.04 machine has 4 CPU cores, and one of them (which one exactly varies) always has a load of 90% to 100%. This is true no matter what I'm doing, and even when I'm not doing anything at ...

With this tip I saw there is a total of about 60 applications being launched by startup applications, and at the moment I have to sit back and wait about 45s while the desktop is unresponsive... ...

Kworker takes about 80% of CPU1 each time I boot the system. I tried to do as explained in this answer. Here's the output of grep . -r /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts: root@fmcomp:~# grep . -r /sys/...

I followed the steps on here Kworker, what is it and why is it hogging so much CPU? to try to figure out why there's a Kworker consuming a lot of CPU power. Normally this wouldn't be an issue because ...

I just purchased a new Asus G752VT and installed Ubuntu 16.04.4 on it. I have observed several issues but one issue which is immediately caught my attention is that the kworker process is taking up ...

The first core of my i5 6600k cpu runs at nearly 100% all the time. To try and find the cause of this I am using perf as per this thread: Kworker, what is it and why is it hogging so much CPU? I ran ...

I am using a dell laptop, CPU i7, GPU NVIDIA, RAM 8GB. I bought an ssd and put it in a caddy and put in the dvd bay. Then I installed ubuntu-gnome 16.04 onto this ssd. This ssd is the second drive on ...