How To Install perftest on Fedora 34

perftest is IB Performance Tests

Introduction

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

What is perftest

Perftest is a collection of simple test programs designed to utilize RDMA communications and provide performance numbers over those RDMA connections. It does not work on normal TCP/IP networks, only on RDMA networks.

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

Install perftest 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 perftest using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perftest

Install perftest 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 perftest using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perftest

How To Uninstall perftest on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove perftest

perftest Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ib_atomic_bw
/usr/bin/ib_atomic_lat
/usr/bin/ib_read_bw
/usr/bin/ib_read_lat
/usr/bin/ib_send_bw
/usr/bin/ib_send_lat
/usr/bin/ib_write_bw
/usr/bin/ib_write_lat
/usr/bin/raw_ethernet_bw
/usr/bin/raw_ethernet_lat
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/05252a0185be47b078d77b1c50345102bd1e1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/31
/usr/lib/.build-id/31/d8488d17ad473121a136794c60f08b468d4adb
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/1aa01e4618b18e00c7317e13e26cde65b852ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/91
/usr/lib/.build-id/91/779cc8514a229e71e18dea647f666a6741af2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/0e63757129ee7b132d2f89e4cb9982fee23ace
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/a5d4e565727c771c660478f0526fb19ebfdc43
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/21d1fafc269b0321e14e649111b9ce3708619b
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2/c1af859a5bf219f673a7dfaca9b7bcbbb3d077
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3/0ed4b83d8772fe4b4c064012ac1a51e2c1c309
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/fdd58fd56238592778d2f5ef22563a4f2e5392
/usr/share/doc/perftest
/usr/share/doc/perftest/README
/usr/share/licenses/perftest
/usr/share/licenses/perftest/COPYING

References

Summary

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