How To Install numatop on Fedora 34

numatop is Memory access locality characterization and analysis

Introduction

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

What is numatop

NumaTOP is an observation tool for runtime memory locality characterization and analysis of processes and threads running on a NUMA system. It helps the user characterize the NUMA behavior of processes and threads and identify where the NUMA-related performance bottlenecks reside. NumaTOP supports the Intel Xeon processors and PowerPC processors.

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

Install numatop 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 numatop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install numatop

Install numatop 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 numatop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install numatop

How To Uninstall numatop on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove numatop

numatop Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/numatop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/e77f307dc5d1e0350ee83ffbc4842e26071af8
/usr/share/doc/numatop
/usr/share/doc/numatop/AUTHORS
/usr/share/licenses/numatop
/usr/share/licenses/numatop/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/numatop.8.gz

References

Summary

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