How To Install tuned-utils-systemtap on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tuned-utils-systemtap on CentOS 8.
What is tuned-utils-systemtap
This package contains several systemtap scripts to allow detailed manual monitoring of the system. Instead of the typical IO/sec it collects minimal, maximal and average time between operations to be able to identify applications that behave power inefficient (many small operations instead of fewer large ones).
We can use yum or dnf to install tuned-utils-systemtap on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tuned-utils-systemtap.
Install tuned-utils-systemtap 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 tuned-utils-systemtap using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tuned-utils-systemtap
Install tuned-utils-systemtap 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 tuned-utils-systemtap using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tuned-utils-systemtap
How To Uninstall tuned-utils-systemtap on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the tuned-utils-systemtap package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tuned-utils-systemtap
tuned-utils-systemtap Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/sbin/diskdevstat
/usr/sbin/netdevstat
/usr/sbin/scomes
/usr/sbin/varnetload
/usr/share/doc/tuned-utils-systemtap
/usr/share/doc/tuned-utils-systemtap/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/tuned-utils-systemtap/README.scomes
/usr/share/doc/tuned-utils-systemtap/README.utils
/usr/share/man/man8/diskdevstat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/netdevstat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/scomes.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/varnetload.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tuned-utils-systemtap on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.