On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 11:05, Sam MacDonald wrote: > Fedora Core 1 > > I have a daemon running called "irqbalance" it supports "distributed > interrupts across the cpus of multiprocessor system for load balancing". > I have another daemon running called "microcode_ctl" it's "a script that > applies cpu microcode". > > The machine is a Compaq Armada M700, PIII 450 laptop with only 1 processor. > > I'm fairly sure I don't need the "irqbalance" deamon running sense I > only have 1 cpu. > But > Is the "microcode_ctl" deamon telling the machine to act as if it has 2 > cpu's and thus "irqbalance" starts? This is all in a badly designed package called "kernel-utils". irqbalance is for SMP machines, but its starts it up even if you don't need it. microcode_ctl upgrades the microcode on PII/PIII and perhaps P4 processors. Useless on an athlon, but its started up anyway. It also contains smartctl, which means you have package interference problems if you're using the upstream smartctl RPM. This package really needs to be split out, throwing random crap together into one package is just a bad idea. I should file a bug report... _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list