> I have found that even restarting it after awhile it will fail again > with the "irqbalance > dead but subsys locked". Same here. I tried to restart the service and check but during shutdown it still shows the failed message. So as suggested, I disabled this service since mine is not dual core processor. > Here is an interesting article about what it actually does: > http://irqbalance.org/documentation.php > Thanks for the link, this is what I wanted to know. :-) Reagrds