How To Install irqbalance on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install irqbalance on Rocky Linux 8. irqbalance is IRQ balancing daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install irqbalance on Rocky Linux 8.

What is irqbalance

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

We can use yum or dnf to install irqbalance on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install irqbalance.

Install irqbalance on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install irqbalance

Install irqbalance on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install irqbalance

How To Uninstall irqbalance on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove irqbalance

irqbalance Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/sysconfig/irqbalance
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/5322dd5202c2273f28e42f9529e71fdb42b903
/usr/lib/systemd/system/irqbalance.service
/usr/sbin/irqbalance
/usr/share/doc/irqbalance
/usr/share/doc/irqbalance/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/irqbalance/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/irqbalance.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install irqbalance on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.