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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1023020 Title: irqbalance shouldn't be installed in Ubuntu Desktop To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1023020/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
