Comment 15 for bug 1626436

This is what I get right after boot and login into Unity 7 (executed in Gnome Terminal):
$ ps aux | grep kworker | wc -l
1004

Kernel is 4.8.0-22-generic. After a few minutes, only 21 kworkers remain. Load after 4 minutes is not excessive (1244 sleeping processes), forgot to check load right after boot:
up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 1,01, 1,79, 0,94

I'm not sure if it is of any help, but I've attached the output of "ps aux | grep kworker".