How To Install tuna on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install tuna on Rocky Linux 8. tuna is Application tuning GUI & command line utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tuna on Rocky Linux 8.

What is tuna

Provides interface for changing scheduler and IRQ tunables, at whole CPU and at per thread/IRQ level. Allows isolating CPUs for use by a specific application and moving threads and interrupts to a CPU by just dragging and dropping them. Operations can be done on CPU sockets, understanding CPU topology. Can be used as a command line utility without requiring the GUI libraries to be installed.

We can use yum or dnf to install tuna on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tuna.

Install tuna on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install tuna using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tuna

Install tuna on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install tuna using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tuna

How To Uninstall tuna on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove tuna

tuna Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/tuna.conf
/etc/tuna/example.conf
/usr/bin/tuna
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna-0.15-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/__pycache__/config.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/__pycache__/config.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/__pycache__/help.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/__pycache__/help.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/__pycache__/oscilloscope.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/__pycache__/oscilloscope.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/__pycache__/sysfs.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/__pycache__/sysfs.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/__pycache__/tuna.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/__pycache__/tuna.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/__pycache__/tuna_gui.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/__pycache__/tuna_gui.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/__pycache__/tuna_sched.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/__pycache__/tuna_sched.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/config.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/__pycache__/commonview.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/__pycache__/commonview.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/__pycache__/cpuview.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/__pycache__/cpuview.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/__pycache__/irqview.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/__pycache__/irqview.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/__pycache__/procview.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/__pycache__/procview.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/__pycache__/profileview.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/__pycache__/profileview.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/__pycache__/util.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/__pycache__/util.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/commonview.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/cpuview.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/irqview.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/procview.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/profileview.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/gui/util.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/help.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/oscilloscope.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/sysfs.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/tuna.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/tuna_gui.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuna/tuna_sched.py
/usr/share/doc/tuna
/usr/share/doc/tuna/ChangeLog
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/tuna.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/tuna.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/tuna.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/tuna.8.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.tuna.policy
/usr/share/tuna
/usr/share/tuna/help
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/events-
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/group_balance
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/kblockd-
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/khelper
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/kjournald
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/kondemand-
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/krcupreemptd
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/ksoftirqd-
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/kthreadd
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/lockd
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/migration-
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/posix_cpu_timer
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/rpciod-
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/sirq-block-
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/sirq-high-
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/sirq-net-rx-
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/sirq-net-tx-
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/sirq-rcu-
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/sirq-sched-
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/sirq-tasklet-
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/sirq-timer-
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/usb-storage
/usr/share/tuna/help/kthreads/watchdog-
/usr/share/tuna/tuna_gui.glade

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tuna on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.