How To Install numactl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install numactl.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. numactl.x86_64 is Library for tuning for Non Uniform Memory Access machines

Introduction

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

What is `numactl.x86_64`

Simple NUMA policy support. It consists of a numactl program to run other programs with a specific NUMA policy.

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

Install numactl.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 numactl.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install numactl.x86_64

How To Uninstall numactl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove numactl.x86_64

numactl.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/memhog
/usr/bin/migratepages
/usr/bin/migspeed
/usr/bin/numactl
/usr/bin/numademo
/usr/bin/numastat
/usr/share/doc/numactl-2.0.9
/usr/share/doc/numactl-2.0.9/README
/usr/share/man/man8/migratepages.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/migspeed.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/numactl.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/numastat.8.gz

References

numactl.x86_64 website

Summary

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