How To Install smem on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install smem
on Fedora 34.
What is smem
smem is a tool that can give numerous reports on memory usage on Linux systems. Unlike existing tools, smem can report proportional set size (PSS), which is a more meaningful representation of the amount of memory used by libraries and applications in a virtual memory system. Because large portions of physical memory are typically shared among multiple applications, the standard measure of memory usage known as resident set size (RSS) will significantly overestimate memory usage. PSS instead measures each application’s “fair share” of each shared area to give a realistic measure.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install smem
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install smem.
Install smem 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 smem
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install smem
Install smem 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 smem
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install smem
How To Uninstall smem on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the smem
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove smem
smem Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/smem
/usr/share/doc/smem
/usr/share/doc/smem/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/smem.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install smem
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.