if you don't have more than one cpu(HT doesn't count) then you don't
need irqbalance. I have it disabled on all of my UP systems without
negative effects.
James Olin Oden wrote:
> On 4/4/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 10:28 -0400, lnthai2002@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>> After updating to centos 4.3, I notice a failure in terminating
>>> irqbalance whenever i shutdown the system. Checking the services after
>>> the system reboot i see the error in irqbalance:
>>> "irqbalance dead but subsys locked"
>>> Can anyone tell me what irqbalance is
> As the other person said it distrubutes IRQ's across multiple
> processors in an SMP system. You don't want to disable this as it
> will impact system performance. Just as a quick explanation, by
> default all of the IRQ's (the signals that let hardware devices notify
> the cpu and by extension device drivers know that they need servicing)
> end up on one processor (at least on Intel like architectures). The
> OS though can balance them across muliple processors which is
> typically more efficient (share the load sort of thing). I don't know
> the algorithms that irqbalance uses to distribute the IRQ's but it
> definately makes things more efficient.
> So again you don't want to disable this (unless your on a single
> processor machine, and then its a moot point; in this case disable
> away using chkconfig).
>
> What I would sugest is filing a bugzilla report at bugzilla.redhat.com.
>
> Cheers...james
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