On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:03:43AM -0400, Martes wrote: > Tasks: 272 total, 2 running, 270 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > %Cpu(s): 7.1 us, 18.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 73.8 id, 0.7 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.1 si, 0.0 st > KiB Mem : 32679644 total, 402520 free, 9889728 used, 22387396 buff/cache > KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free, 0 used. 21951812 avail Mem > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 91 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 94.1 0.0 1540:35 kworker/7:1 > I suggest trying out the suggestions listed here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/31/68 In particular, if you look at the PID of the kworker using nearly 100% of a core, you could run: (using the above output from top) # cat /proc/91/stack And you'll see what function(s) it is running. This will give you an idea of what task it is spinning on. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>