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+What is Irqbalance
+
+Irqbalance is a daemon to help balance the cpu load generated by interrupts
+across all of a systems cpus.  Irqbalance identifies the highest volume
+interrupt sources, and isolates them to a single unique cpu, so that load is
+spread as much as possible over an entire processor set, while minimizing cache
+hit rates for irq handlers.
+
+Building and Installing
+./autogen.sh
+./configure [options]
+make
+make install
+