/media/bill/PROJECTS/System_maintenance/Linux/system monitor - process names.txt www.BillHowell.ca 22Dec2020 This is of interest in case I can spot malicious processes? https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/152819/how-interpret-kworker-threads-names I have only a vague knowledge of what kworker threads do: they handle asynchronous events caused by system calls performing I/O. Are they documented somewhere? edited May 25 '15 at 8:19 tshepang 55k7676 gold badges202202 silver badges278278 bronze badges asked Aug 29 '14 at 15:10 Manuel Selva # enddoc