# Odd thing on my Ubuntu 24.10 ms-01

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**Category:** Linux Security\
**Created:** [April 30, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://community.learnlinux.tv/t/odd-thing-on-my-ubuntu-24-10-ms-01/4630 "2025-04-30T17:14:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lurchicus](https://community.learnlinux.tv/user_avatar/community.learnlinux.tv/lurchicus/32/1603_2.png) [@Lurchicus](https://community.learnlinux.tv/u/Lurchicus)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://community.learnlinux.tv/t/odd-thing-on-my-ubuntu-24-10-ms-01/4630/1 "2025-04-30T17:14:46Z")

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Hi everyone,

This started happening a day or two ago… in the image below from btop, I started seeing this process latching onto a thread and running it at 100%. Insight into what this might be would be appreciated, or if you can point me to a resource that could help me properly diagnose this I again would greatly appreciate it.

Some system info:

 ![Screenshot From 2025-04-30 12-59-54](https://community.learnlinux.tv/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c21991f9dd8d8f46c3f86cfdc9371319e0a8f56d.png)

Btop info, the processes I’m concerned about are at the top, especially the one using 4.9% of my CPU overall (process never releases the thread/core.

 ![kworker](https://community.learnlinux.tv/uploads/default/original/2X/1/12e784f4a47a2470b27552d4184e241189126f03.jpeg)

Thank you,  
Dan

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**Author:** ![hypoiodous](https://community.learnlinux.tv/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f475e1/32.png) [@hypoiodous](https://community.learnlinux.tv/u/hypoiodous)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 10:18am UTC](https://community.learnlinux.tv/t/odd-thing-on-my-ubuntu-24-10-ms-01/4630/2 "2025-05-06T10:18:00Z")

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I’m afraid I don’t know much about this, but this thread over at LQ seems to have some useful tips:

[https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/high-cpu-usage-by-kworker-4175563563/](https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/high-cpu-usage-by-kworker-4175563563/)

Also, you can toggle the process view in btop to display it as a tree. Maybe it’s the fault of the parent process, or that might give you a better idea of what’s going on.

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**Author:** ![Lurchicus](https://community.learnlinux.tv/user_avatar/community.learnlinux.tv/lurchicus/32/1603_2.png) [@Lurchicus](https://community.learnlinux.tv/u/Lurchicus)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://community.learnlinux.tv/t/odd-thing-on-my-ubuntu-24-10-ms-01/4630/3 "2025-05-20T02:10:03Z")

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Well, nothing seemed to help (including the “solution”). I ended up doing a clean Ubuntu 25.04 install.