<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 March 2018 at 08:20, Volker Wysk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:post@volker-wysk.de" target="_blank">post@volker-wysk.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi<br>
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Every few days, I get a lot of kworkers (some 50) in the process list. The hard disk clatters all the time. From the web I've found that those are kernel threads. Since I have an SSD (apart from the harddisk, set up as a cache for the HD), this doesn't make my system unresponsive. But still...<br>
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What's going on here? And how to get rid of all those kworkers?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I do remember some bugs that caused lots of kworkers to appear. Which version of Ubuntu are you using? The hard disk should not be clattering all the time when you are not doing anything. Have you checked that you are not running out of RAM and so using Swap memory?</div><div><br></div><div>Colin<br></div><div> <br></div></div></div></div>