How To Install numad.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install numad.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2.
What is numad.x86_64
Numad, a daemon for NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Architecture) systems, that monitors NUMA characteristics and manages placement of processes and memory to minimize memory latency and thus provide optimum performance.
We can use yum
to install numad.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install numad.x86_64.
Install numad.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 numad.x86_64
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install numad.x86_64
How To Uninstall numad.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the numad.x86_64
package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove numad.x86_64
numad.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/logrotate.d/numad
/etc/numad.conf
/usr/bin/numad
/usr/lib/systemd/system/numad.service
/usr/share/man/man8/numad.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install numad.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.