Description of problem: When irq runs on a system with two cpus, it quickly exits not reporting any reason as to why. Practically speaking, irqbalance doesn't have much work to do on a system that has only one cache domain and it's job is to spread irq's across the available domains in the system. However, this will cause confusion in the minority of our customers and will trigger some support calls. To avoid confusion I propose documentation that describes expected behavior on systems with only one cache domain and possibly a pointer to the documentation @ the irqbalance project page. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.55-10.el5 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run irqbalance on a system with <= 2 cpus or 1 cache domain 2. Check daemon status after a few seconds 3. Actual results: Program exits Expected results: Continues to run or report it has nothing to do. Additional info:
concur. I'll update the docs for 5.3
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fixed in -11.el5
sweet.