# Integration and maintenance Despite some saying it is for the past only, it is regularly updated and has multiple releases per year throughout all the time [4]. Those updates flow well into Debian and Ubuntu - so it is not a classic "old and outdated" case. And while not much changes in those updates, it means it still learns like about thermal events in 1.9.1 or about isolcpus in 1.0.9. I'm not saying it is super modern doing it all, but it gets updates.
Currently this is seeded in ubuntu-standard [1], which is what makes it default installed everywhere. But it is intentionally only a recommends, so the set of people that want to remove it can do so. It was added a long time ago [3] back when multi-core was a rare thing at least for Desktop systems. This was based on a discussion [5] and was related to the kernel [6] actively delegating this to userspace. Debian did a similar change a bit later [17] for the same reasons. But again this was the time of single-core being common. [1]: https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/+git/platform/tree/standard?h=noble#n19 [3]: https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/+git/platform/commit/?h=noble&id=dcd02266953547e11221979eb17eb740a76a62b5 [4]: https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/tags [5]: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-January/029939.html [6]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8b8e8c1bf7275eca859fe551dfa484134eaf013b [17]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=577788 ** Bug watch added: github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues #3243 https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3243 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1833322 Title: Consider removing irqbalance from default install on desktop images Status in irqbalance package in Ubuntu: New Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: as per https://github.com/pop-os/default-settings/issues/60 Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release): $ cat /etc/os-release NAME="Pop!_OS" VERSION="19.04" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Pop!_OS 19.04" VERSION_ID="19.04" HOME_URL="https://system76.com/pop"; SUPPORT_URL="http://support.system76.com"; BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues"; PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://system76.com/privacy"; VERSION_CODENAME=disco UBUNTU_CODENAME=disco Related Application and/or Package Version (run apt policy $PACKAGE NAME): $ apt policy irqbalance irqbalance: Installed: 1.5.0-3ubuntu1 Candidate: 1.5.0-3ubuntu1 Version table: *** 1.5.0-3ubuntu1 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ apt rdepends irqbalance irqbalance Reverse Depends: Recommends: ubuntu-standard gce-compute-image-packages Issue/Bug Description: as per konkor/cpufreq#48 and http://konkor.github.io/cpufreq/faq/#irqbalance-detected irqbalance is technically not needed on desktop systems (supposedly it is mainly for servers), and may actually reduce performance and power savings. It appears to provide benefits only to server environments that have relatively-constant loading. If it is truly a server- oriented package, then it shouldn't be installed by default on a desktop/laptop system and shouldn't be included in desktop OS images. Steps to reproduce (if you know): This is potentially an issue with all default installs. Expected behavior: n/a Other Notes: I can safely remove it via "sudo apt purge irqbalance" without any apparent adverse side-effects. If someone is running a situation where they need it, then they always have the option of installing it from the repositories. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/irqbalance/+bug/1833322/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
