How To Install numad.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install numad.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. numad.x86_64 is NUMA user daemon

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.