Determining what are kernel kworker and ksoftirqd threads executing

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The output from top and ps may list kworker or softirq as commands consuming processor time. The names kworker and ksoftirqd are not that useful in themselves. The kworker process is the a catch-all process under which timer, interrupt processing and other internal kernel threads are run. You would like to get a better idea of what ...

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