[Bug 1023020] [NEW] irqbalance shouldn't be installed in Ubuntu Desktop

[Daniel J Blueman]

Public bug reported:

irqbalance clocks up time, causes additional context switches and
wakeups in an effort to optimise performance for "high interrupt rate"
network conditions.

Due to many network drivers supporting NAPI and offering eg TCP offload
(coalescing small packets), it's default use in ubuntu-server would even
be unclear.

For mobile and desktop users, it is suboptimal and we see the
documentation target it at a specific server environment [1].

Therefore, we should remove the 'recommends' ubuntu-standard has for it
[2].

[1] https://irqbalance.org/
[2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/ubuntu-standard

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: irqbalance 0.56-1ubuntu4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-030500rc6-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jul 10 23:08:48 2012
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_SG:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_SG.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: irqbalance
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise

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Title:
  irqbalance shouldn't be installed in Ubuntu Desktop

Status in “ubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  irqbalance clocks up time, causes additional context switches and
  wakeups in an effort to optimise performance for "high interrupt rate"
  network conditions.

  Due to many network drivers supporting NAPI and offering eg TCP
  offload (coalescing small packets), it's default use in ubuntu-server
  would even be unclear.

  For mobile and desktop users, it is suboptimal and we see the
  documentation target it at a specific server environment [1].

  Therefore, we should remove the 'recommends' ubuntu-standard has for
  it [2].

  [1] https://irqbalance.org/
  [2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/ubuntu-standard

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: irqbalance 0.56-1ubuntu4
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-030500rc6-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Jul 10 23:08:48 2012
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_SG:en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_SG.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: irqbalance
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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