The title says it all really. I don't want to just kill something that seems so close to the bare metal, and sudo service irqbalance stop
says stop: Unknown instance:
-- what am I missing? Should I be disabling it somewhere and rebooting?
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Just curious, what's the purpose of enabling/disabling this? It would seem one would want this enabled...– Jonathan S. FisherAug 18, 2014 at 15:34
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I'll be honest, after 3.5 years or so, I can't remember. Presumably it was causing me a problem at the time -- a buggy interaction with something else, in 10.04 or 10.10, maybe?– James GreenAug 19, 2014 at 13:03
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And 30 seconds later I found my answer - set ENABLED=0
in /etc/default/irqbalance
Sorry, nothing to see here, move along.
Just a warning that the ENABLED=0
setting in /etc/default/irqbalance
setting will not work on recent versions of irqbalance
(1.1+), it has been removed a while ago.
As far as I can tell from the source code, there is no way to disable a more recent version of irqbalance
without actually stopping the process itself. For example if you run a systemd
-based distribution, this would be something like systemctl stop irqbalance.service
.
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So we stop the service and then....... use
IRQBALANCE_BANNED_CPUS
to control which cpus IRQs are ran on? Feb 4 at 3:57
In 2018 the reason for removing it completely is a warning from the excellent cpufreq
Gnome panel applet for managing your processor governor settings, even down to temporarily disabling cores to reduce power consumption provided you have removed irqbalance
.