can confirm alex's observation that removing/reinserting power will sometimes put kworker to rest in my 12.10-all-defaults installation. unfortunately its 1 out of 20 tries when this happens and therefore hardly usefull for daily work.
@danyil: i dont see what this bug has to do with e1000 or XFS - my system has no such device nor does it use XFS ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/887793 Title: Kworker constantly taking about 100% CPU To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/887793/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs