irqbalance
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efeldhusen.lists at gmail.com
Wed Nov 14 16:05:47 UTC 2007
Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> On 11/14/07, efeldhusen.lists at gmail.com <efeldhusen.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>>>> If i shut down my Fedora 8 I can see alle the services getting stopped.
>>>> There is one that fails: irqbalance.
>>>> This aint a big problem... bcs the machine is shutting down anyhow ^^
>>>> but can it give problems in the future?
>>>>
>>> Answer is it doesn't seem to hurt. I have the same thing. And
>>> no-one knows what it it is expected to do, or at least I don't :-)
>>>
>> IRQbalance is a service for multiple processor systems that will balance
>> running programs across the multiple processors, so that you're using
>> both processors to your advantage.
>>
>
> Sorry, I think that's not correct. Irqbalance balances IRQ's not
> running programs. I'm not sure, but probably migration daemon balances
> running programs between cpus.
>
Here's a better explanation of the irqbalance service and what it does.
http://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=2525
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