On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Paul Mattal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 23, 2008, at 7:35 PM, Dan McGee wrote: > >> Does anyone have any comments on pulling a new package into our repos >> (extra)? >> >> irqbalance: >> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10804 >> http://www.irqbalance.org/ >> >> 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. >> >> I was poking around gerolde today and noticed the following, which >> this daemon is supposed to fix: >> $ cat /proc/interrupts >> CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 >> 0: 167 0 0 24048 IO-APIC-edge timer >> 34: 0 0 0 1557024287 IO-APIC-fasteoi ioc0 >> 64: 0 0 0 2309314931 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0 >> LOC: 1044939304 862822858 922819431 1061796506 Local timer interrupts >> RES: 47509379 41864565 96191013 60946968 Rescheduling interrupts >> CAL: 28955 30778 32683 31325 function call >> interrupts >> TLB: 42452901 45130904 34918196 34859372 TLB shootdowns >> >> Notice how CPU3 is handling every single hardware interrupt on our >> system, and we have a LOT of them from our disk and ethernet >> controllers. Balancing some of this across processors should help, and >> this program takes care of that. I've been running it locally on my >> machine and it seems to work as advertised. > > Sounds like a great package to me! +1
It's in extra now for both architectures. Let me know if anyone sees any problems- I'd like to get this on gerolde and see how it works. -Dan
