How To Install numatop on CentOS 8

numatop is Memory access locality characterization and analysis

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install numatop on CentOS 8.

What is numatop

NumaTOP is an observation tool for runtime memory locality characterization and analysis of processes and threads running on a NUMA system. It helps the user characterize the NUMA behavior of processes and threads and identify where the NUMA-related performance bottlenecks reside. NumaTOP supports the Intel Xeon processors and PowerPC processors.

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

Install numatop on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install numatop

Install numatop on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install numatop

How To Uninstall numatop on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove numatop

numatop Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/numatop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/8bc74df0888177618f5a163bf76407064e1248
/usr/share/doc/numatop
/usr/share/doc/numatop/AUTHORS
/usr/share/licenses/numatop
/usr/share/licenses/numatop/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/numatop.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install numatop on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.