How To Install irqbalance.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install irqbalance.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. irqbalance.x86_64 is IRQ balancing daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install irqbalance.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `irqbalance.x86_64`

irqbalance is a daemon that evenly distributes IRQ load across multiple CPUs for enhanced performance.

We can use yum to install irqbalance.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install irqbalance.x86_64.

Install irqbalance.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install irqbalance.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install irqbalance.x86_64

How To Uninstall irqbalance.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the irqbalance.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove irqbalance.x86_64

irqbalance.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/sysconfig/irqbalance
/usr/lib/systemd/system/irqbalance.service
/usr/sbin/irqbalance
/usr/share/doc/irqbalance-1.7.0
/usr/share/doc/irqbalance-1.7.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/irqbalance-1.7.0/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/irqbalance.1.gz

References

irqbalance.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install irqbalance.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.