Start irqbalance by default

[Soren Hansen]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 08:14:47PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
>  - Are there downsides to running irqbalance on SMP systems - e.g., does
>    using both CPUs for IRQs mean waking up processors that otherwise would
>    be allowed to sleep, resulting in more power usage on systems where
>    performance is not the primary concern?

Oh, I forgot to mention: irqbalance can go into power-save mode in which
it will route all interrupts to fewer CPU's.

There's a documentation page that explains a lot of this stuff:

   http://irqbalance.org/documentation.php

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Soren Hansen                 | 
Lead virtualisation engineer | Ubuntu Server Team
Canonical Ltd.               | http://www.ubuntu.com/
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