On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 01:18, Jos Hulzink wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While tackling bug 699, it became clear to me that irq balancing is the cause
> of the performance problems I, and all people using the SMP kernel Mandrake
> 9.1 ships, are dealing with. I got the problems with 2.5.69 too. After
> disabling irq balancing, the system is remarkably faster, and much more
> responsive.
>
> For those interested in the issue, please look at bug 699.
please try the following app instead:
http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/irqbalance/
the in kernel irqbalancer in 2.4 kernels has some worst case behaviors
at least, and the userspace implementation avoids those.
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