How To Install sediment on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sediment in Fedora 36. sediment is A function reordering tool set

Introduction

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

What is sediment

The sediment tool set allows reordering of the functions in compiled programs built with RPM to reduce the frequency of TLB misses and decrease the number of pages in the resident set. Sediment generates call graphs from program execution and converts the call graphs into link order information to improve code locality.

We can use yum or dnf to install sediment on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sediment.

Install sediment 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 sediment using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sediment

Install sediment 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 sediment using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sediment

How To Uninstall sediment on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove sediment

sediment Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/gen_profile_merge
/usr/bin/gv2link
/usr/bin/perf2gv
/usr/libexec/sediment
/usr/libexec/sediment/write-dot-callgraph.py
/usr/share/doc/sediment
/usr/share/doc/sediment/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/sediment/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/sediment/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/sediment/README
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_downloads
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_downloads/62f0545f284e79b2a669377aba07ded7
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_downloads/62f0545f284e79b2a669377aba07ded7/postgres12.link
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_downloads/85024a63c2fbd3567e93dcfabb3d70c1
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_downloads/85024a63c2fbd3567e93dcfabb3d70c1/.rpmmacros
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_downloads/ac05943a9205754ecd2527d1d339c990
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_downloads/ac05943a9205754ecd2527d1d339c990/postgres12.gv
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_downloads/e97c90ff9773952a0c6323de8184ed68
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_downloads/e97c90ff9773952a0c6323de8184ed68/postgres12.out
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_downloads/f9028f0e06f942ea33efb3b4e64c05db
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_downloads/f9028f0e06f942ea33efb3b4e64c05db/postgres12.svg
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_static
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_static/basic.css
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_static/classic.css
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_static/default.css
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_static/doctools.js
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_static/documentation_options.js
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_static/file.png
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_static/jquery-3.5.1.js
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_static/jquery.js
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_static/language_data.js
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_static/minus.png
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_static/plus.png
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_static/pygments.css
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_static/searchtools.js
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_static/sidebar.js
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_static/underscore-1.13.1.js
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/_static/underscore.js
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/gen_profile_merge.html
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/genindex.html
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/gv2link.html
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/objects.inv
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/perf2gv.html
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/pop.html
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/search.html
/usr/share/doc/sediment/html/searchindex.js
/usr/share/man/man1/gen_profile_merge.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gv2link.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/perf2gv.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sediment.1.gz

References

Summary

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