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apport-collect 1462108 and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'. If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'. This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1462108 Title: kworker high cpu utilization Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I upgraded to vivid 15.04 on my HP Sleekbook (AMD A10 CPU) and it runs very hot. Top shows kworker taking up 60-70% CPU immediately after rebooting and not launching any programs. top - 17:27:55 up 10 min, 3 users, load average: 2.93, 2.75, 1.51 Tasks: 205 total, 3 running, 202 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 22.8 us, 35.5 sy, 0.0 ni, 39.5 id, 0.2 wa, 0.0 hi, 1.9 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem: 5233588 total, 4715036 used, 518552 free, 56484 buffers KiB Swap: 5468156 total, 0 used, 5468156 free. 689644 cached Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 97 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 66.0 0.0 6:13.97 kworker/2:3 3512 darla 20 0 1020444 320036 61580 S 45.8 6.1 2:02.92 chrome 22 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 34.2 0.0 3:08.83 ksoftirqd/2 3493 darla 20 0 2868728 1.492g 39876 S 30.5 29.9 2:04.76 chrome 1033 root 20 0 351108 136976 90380 R 24.9 2.6 1:46.40 Xorg 3311 darla 20 0 1085248 205976 90288 S 17.6 3.9 1:26.52 chrome 2479 darla 9 -11 630432 10824 7760 S 6.3 0.2 0:13.21 pulseaudio 3342 darla 20 0 1109672 332000 135212 S 5.6 6.3 0:29.85 chrome 3467 darla 20 0 959564 184012 60188 S 3.0 3.5 0:21.64 chrome 77 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.7 0.0 0:08.37 kworker/1:1 2697 darla 20 0 388040 24652 18852 S 1.7 0.5 0:00.85 xfce4-term+ 3483 darla 20 0 1039356 209628 64692 S 1.7 4.0 0:23.44 chrome 3561 darla 20 0 879172 146972 64124 S 1.0 2.8 0:07.04 chrome 50 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.7 0.0 0:05.24 kworker/0:1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1462108/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp