How To Install irqbalance on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install irqbalance in Fedora 36. irqbalance is IRQ balancing daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install irqbalance on Fedora 36.

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 Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install irqbalance.

Install irqbalance on Fedora 36 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 Fedora 36 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 Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove irqbalance

irqbalance Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/sysconfig/irqbalance
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/67de0361cb45ce60bdea2aa26dda0335eecdcb
/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

irqbalance website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install irqbalance on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).