What is irqbalance?

irqbalance is a Linux* daemon that distributes interrupts over the processors and cores you have in your computer system. The design goal of irqbalance is to do find a balance between power savings and optimal performance. To a large degree, the work irqbalance does is invisible to you; if irqbalance performs its job right, nobody will ever notice it's there or want to turn it off.

More details about what irqbalance is, why you want it, how it works can be found on the documentation page.

The manpage that describes how to use the irqbalance daemon is available here.

If you want to get started using irqbalance right away, download the sourcecode from the download page.

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