How To Install perftest on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perftest on CentOS 8.
What is perftest
Perftest is a collection of simple test programs designed to utilize RDMA communications and provide performance numbers over those RDMA connections. It does not work on normal TCP/IP networks, only on RDMA networks.
We can use yum or dnf to install perftest on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perftest.
Install perftest 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 perftest using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install perftest
Install perftest 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 perftest using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perftest
How To Uninstall perftest on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the perftest package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove perftest
perftest Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/ib_atomic_bw
/usr/bin/ib_atomic_lat
/usr/bin/ib_read_bw
/usr/bin/ib_read_lat
/usr/bin/ib_send_bw
/usr/bin/ib_send_lat
/usr/bin/ib_write_bw
/usr/bin/ib_write_lat
/usr/bin/raw_ethernet_bw
/usr/bin/raw_ethernet_lat
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/82bb10b87575d17637d660f7db49caeeff339f
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/6c6ab2712402b900353bd90d0132f1618ffedb
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/bf775eab5f90cffd8780b7353a68735a70114f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/fc82b5b2488c0f97a0999ed4cca6c775de8c35
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/497af5ad8f00aee2a8aeb44838f3bb8b2285d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/5c8f2e96d958124e69a50d606bd452ab911275
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d/ebdb0ddb3564068d570d83427e76563a331acf
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/cd98cdac9ef5167cb9bff59062bdce37319ab8
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/02a87e835e960992220c99666a28d4d35ca4df
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/36c3587e706926cdfe0e8f36f143345e969b7f
/usr/share/doc/perftest
/usr/share/doc/perftest/README
/usr/share/licenses/perftest
/usr/share/licenses/perftest/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ib_atomic_bw.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ib_atomic_lat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ib_read_bw.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ib_read_lat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ib_send_bw.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ib_send_lat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ib_write_bw.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ib_write_lat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/raw_ethernet_bw.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/raw_ethernet_lat.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perftest on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.