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Oracle Linux: High Number Of kworker/ksoftirqd Processes Causing Degraded System Performance (Doc ID 2309647.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 12, 2022

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 6.7 with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel [3.8.13] and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

The system is a database server, and is experiencing degraded performance, and slow I/O.

There are high numbers of ksoftirqd and kworker processes running, as shown below:

 

Changes

 No changes.

Cause

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