How To Install iowatcher.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install iowatcher.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. iowatcher.x86_64 is Utility for visualizing block layer IO patterns and performance

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iowatcher.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `iowatcher.x86_64`

iowatcher generates graphs from blktrace runs to help visualize IO patterns and performance as SVG images or movies. It can plot multiple blktrace runs together, making it easy to compare the differences between different benchmark runs. You should install the iowatcher package if you need to visualize detailed information about IO patterns.

We can use yum to install iowatcher.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iowatcher.x86_64.

Install iowatcher.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install iowatcher.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install iowatcher.x86_64

How To Uninstall iowatcher.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the iowatcher.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove iowatcher.x86_64

iowatcher.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/iowatcher
/usr/share/doc/iowatcher-1.0
/usr/share/doc/iowatcher-1.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/iowatcher-1.0/README
/usr/share/man/man1/iowatcher.1.gz

References

iowatcher.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install iowatcher.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.