On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 20:37, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> I thought the same thing reading his original message, then I looked 
> closer. He booted using "noirqbalance", did not start the userspace 
> balancer, and yet his IRQs are still being balanced.

if you don't do a thing, pIII cpu based machines will balance by
themselves while pIV cpu based machines will redirect everything to CPU
0.