How To Install iowatcher on Fedora 34

iowatcher is Utility for visualizing block layer IO patterns and performance

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iowatcher on Fedora 34.

What is `iowatcher`

iowatcher generates graphs from blktrace runs to help visualize IO patterns and performance as SVG images or movies. It can plot multiple blktrace runs together, making it easy to compare the differences between different benchmark runs. You should install the iowatcher package if you need to visualize detailed information about IO patterns.

We can use yum or dnf to install iowatcher on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iowatcher.

Install iowatcher on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install iowatcher

Install iowatcher on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install iowatcher

How To Uninstall iowatcher on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove iowatcher

iowatcher Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/iowatcher
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/71
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/cb860e99d10faf54c476b16fd636f79320c029
/usr/share/doc/iowatcher
/usr/share/doc/iowatcher/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/iowatcher/README
/usr/share/man/man1/iowatcher.1.gz

References

iowatcher website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install iowatcher on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.