Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 2 Jan 2009 19:32:21 -0500 (EST) | From | Justin Piszcz <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.27/2.6.28: irqbalance dies shortly after starting the daemon on x86 but not x86_64, why? |
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On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Justin Piszcz wrote: >> (same on both x86 and x86_64): >> # cat /etc/default/irqbalance >> #Configuration for the irqbalance daemon >> >> #Should irqbalance be enabled? >> ENABLED=1 >> #Balance the IRQs only once? >> ONESHOT="0" > > > which version of irqbalance is this? >
$ dpkg -l | grep -i irqbalance ii irqbalance 0.55-2.4 Daemon to balance interrupts for SMP systems
Kyle stated: > If there is only one cache domain, ie: one physical cpu socket with two > cores sharing a cache, then irqbalance will return after the initial > balance since it would be pointless to continue running. (It forces > itself into oneshot mode.)
The CPU = E6700 so yep, so if there is one physical socket with 4 cores it keeps? For it to keep and not oneshot you need > 2 cores?
Justin.
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