Start irqbalance by default

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 02:38:44PM +0100, Soren Hansen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:23:43AM +0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > It's looking at statistical behavior, e.g. how many IRQs particular
> > devices have generated over a period of minutes or hours, and uses
> > that information to provide the kernel with scheduling hints.  I think
> > running it a few times per hour at most would be sufficient.
> 
> I don't think a rescheduling interval of more than a minute is really
> very useful.

Why is that?  I'm just guessing here, but intuitively (especially on
servers) I would not expect the proportions of various IRQs to change all
that often.

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 - mdz