How To Install stalld on CentOS 8

stalld is Daemon that finds starving tasks and gives them a temporary boost

Introduction

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

What is stalld

The stalld program monitors the set of system threads, looking for threads that are ready-to-run but have not been given processor time for some threshold period. When a starving thread is found, it is given a temporary boost using the SCHED_DEADLINE policy. The default is to allow 10 microseconds of runtime for 1 second of clock time.

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

Install stalld 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 stalld using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install stalld

Install stalld 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 stalld using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install stalld

How To Uninstall stalld on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove stalld

stalld Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/sysconfig/stalld
/usr/bin/stalld
/usr/bin/throttlectl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/b00a0d840a44d7f1f4b7e17edf6466a4634ef0
/usr/lib/systemd/system/stalld.service
/usr/share/doc/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/stalld
/usr/share/licenses/stalld/gpl-2.0.txt
/usr/share/man/man8/stalld.8.gz

References

Summary

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