Package: irqbalance Version: 0.55-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
This is the current description of the package in Debian. irqbalance - Daemon to balance interrupts for SMP systems My understanding of a daemon is that the process keeps running in the background. But in case of irqbalance, the process silently exits. There are no messages logged into syslog or dmesg. I ran irqbalance in --debug mode and following is the output. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo irqbalance --debug Package 0: cpu mask is 00000003 (workload 0) Cache domain 0: cpu mask is 00000003 (workload 0) CPU number 1 (workload 0) CPU number 0 (workload 0) Interrupt 17 (class ethernet) has workload 59 Interrupt 0 (class timer) has workload 556 Interrupt 8 (class timer) has workload 0 Interrupt 14 (class storage) has workload 1 Interrupt 18 (class storage) has workload 0 Interrupt 15 (class storage) has workload 0 Interrupt 16 (class legacy) has workload 269 Interrupt 20 (class legacy) has workload 200 Interrupt 19 (class legacy) has workload 1 Interrupt 23 (class legacy) has workload 0 Interrupt 22 (class legacy) has workload 0 Interrupt 21 (class legacy) has workload 0 Interrupt 12 (class legacy) has workload 0 Interrupt 9 (class legacy) has workload 0 Interrupt 1 (class legacy) has workload 0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IRQ delta is 6917 Package 0: cpu mask is 00000003 (workload 5733) Cache domain 0: cpu mask is 00000003 (workload 5733) CPU number 1 (workload 1771) Interrupt 17 (ethernet/307) Interrupt 14 (storage/52) Interrupt 15 (storage/0) Interrupt 16 (legacy/1375) Interrupt 19 (legacy/29) Interrupt 22 (legacy/0) Interrupt 12 (legacy/0) Interrupt 1 (legacy/0) CPU number 0 (workload 3962) Interrupt 18 (storage/0) Interrupt 20 (legacy/1015) Interrupt 23 (legacy/0) Interrupt 21 (legacy/0) Interrupt 9 (legacy/0) I tried checking at the irqbalance website but didn't find any document stating that silently exiting is WAD. Since irqbalance is graded a daemon, it silently dying is a grave bug to me. Ritesh -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (450, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-debian (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages irqbalance depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.14 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.6-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.13-1 The GLib library of C routines irqbalance recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * irqbalance/oneshot: ONESHOT irqbalance/enable: ENABLE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]