> This is not a serious problem. There was a fairly long thread about > this not that long ago. A somewhat simplified explanation is that > the IRQ balance daemon loads, discovers that it can not do dynamic > balancing with your hardware, and exits. But the script that > launches it does not handle this and leaves the lock file that says > the service is running. When you shutdown the system, the script > tries to shut down the daemon, but because it is not running, the > script reports that it failed. > > There is a bug report on this. I have not been following it, so I am > not sure of the status. One fix would probably to have the daemon > exit with a non-zero return code when it can not do dynamic balancing. > Thanks for the info. So its a known issue. If it cannot do the thing it was supposed to do in my hardware, Can I safely disable it? Thanks
