How To Install numad on Fedora 34

numad is NUMA user daemon

Introduction

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

What is numad

Numad, a daemon for NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Architecture) systems, that monitors NUMA characteristics and manages placement of processes and memory to minimize memory latency and thus provide optimum performance.

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

Install numad 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 numad using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install numad

Install numad 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 numad using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install numad

How To Uninstall numad on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove numad

numad Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/logrotate.d/numad
/usr/bin/numad
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/1aa25c4d803890ca249f58ade07c0e87bf23d0
/usr/lib/systemd/system/numad.service
/usr/share/man/man8/numad.8.gz

References

Summary

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