Technical troubleshooting and more

when you look for kworker processes you see many of those using a lot of CPU and making your server load very high   $ ps -aux | grep kworker root 15 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Aug12 0:00 [kworker/1:0] root 16 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Aug12 0:00 [kworker/1:0H] root 85 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Aug12 0:09 [kworker/0:1H] root 3562 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Aug12 0:00 [kworker/0:2H] root 5578 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 11:13 0:01 [kworker/0:0] root 5579 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 11:13 0:00 [kworker/u4:1] root 8789 0.1 0.0 0 0 ? S 12:19 0:10 [kworker/0:2] root 30236 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 08:39 0:01 [kworker/u4:0] top: top - 10:10:17 up 20:15, 3 users, load average: 24.01, 28.04, 19.36 Tasks: 436 total, 1 running, 435 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 2.2 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 97.8 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0