Rules Related To 'irqbalance'

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Enable IRQ Balance (irqbalance)

service_irqbalance_enabled

Description

The irqbalance service optimizes the balance between power savings and performance through distribution of hardware interrupts across multiple processors. The irqbalance service can be enabled with the following command:

$ sudo systemctl enable irqbalance.service

Rationale

In an environment with multiple processors (now common), the irqbalance service provides potential speedups for handling interrupt requests.