After I updated irqbalance to the next major version (shortly after your
last message from 2017) the issue didn't appear anymore since then.
** Changed in: irqbalance (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Fix Released
** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
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> 1. does on the system running also take quite some time if you do like
"systemctl stop irqbalance"?
I have tested this now multiple times by stopping and starting it again
and all looked fine.
> 2. I'd assume that systemd concurrently stops multiple things and irqbalance
> is just the last to