irqbalance command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

irqbalance: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: irqbalance: command not found

Solutions to irqbalance: command not found

How To Fix irqbalance: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu irqbalance is provided by irqbalance package.

irqbalance is:

Daemon to balance interrupts across multiple CPUs, which can lead to better performance and IO balance on SMP systems. This package is especially useful on systems with multi-core processors, as interrupts will typically only be serviced by the first core.

Note: irqbalance is not useful if you don’t have more than one CPU core.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install irqbalance

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install irqbalance.

sudo apt -y install irqbalance

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install irqbalance

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix irqbalance command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.