How To Install hugepages on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hugepages on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is hugepages
hugepages is:
This package contains a number of utilities that will help administrate the use of huge pages on your system. hugeedit modifies binaries to set default segment remapping behavior. hugectl sets environment variables for using huge pages and then execs the target program. hugeadm gives easy access to huge page pool size control. pagesize lists page sizes available on the machine.
There are three methods to install hugepages on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hugepages Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hugepages using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hugepages
Install hugepages Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hugepages using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hugepages
Install hugepages Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install hugepages using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hugepages
How To Uninstall hugepages on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the hugepages package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hugepages
Uninstall hugepages And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hugepages and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hugepages
Remove hugepages Configurations and Data
To remove hugepages configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hugepages
Remove hugepages configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hugepages configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hugepages
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hugepages package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.