How To Install uresourced on Fedora 34
uresourced is Dynamically allocate resources to the active user
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install uresourced on Fedora 34.
What is uresourced
This daemon dynamically assigns a resource allocation to the active graphical user. If the user has an active graphical session managed using systemd (e.g. GNOME), then the memory allocation will be used to protect the sessions core processes (session.slice).
We can use yum or dnf to install uresourced on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install uresourced.
Install uresourced 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 uresourced using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install uresourced
Install uresourced 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 uresourced using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install uresourced
How To Uninstall uresourced on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the uresourced package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove uresourced
uresourced Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/uresourced.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/7c9e977784e0d24df087756ad29c92fa5001c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/5ca94be46412c360fc56e2b05d289f7d15ad8d
/usr/lib/systemd/system/uresourced.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]/00-uresourced.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-chromium\x2dbrowser-.scope.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-chromium\x2dbrowser-.scope.d/99-cgroupify.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-chromium\x2dbrowser@@.service.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-chromium\x2dbrowser@@.service.d/99-cgroupify.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-firefox-.scope.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-firefox-.scope.d/99-cgroupify.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-firefox@@.service.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-firefox@@.service.d/99-cgroupify.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-glib-chromium\x2dbrowser-.scope.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-glib-chromium\x2dbrowser-.scope.d/99-cgroupify.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-glib-firefox-.scope.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-glib-firefox-.scope.d/99-cgroupify.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-glib-google\x2dchrome-.scope.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-glib-google\x2dchrome-.scope.d/99-cgroupify.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-glib-org.gnome.Epiphany-.scope.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-glib-org.gnome.Epiphany-.scope.d/99-cgroupify.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-gnome-chromium\x2dbrowser-.scope.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-gnome-chromium\x2dbrowser-.scope.d/99-cgroupify.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-gnome-firefox-.scope.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-gnome-firefox-.scope.d/99-cgroupify.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-gnome-google\x2dchrome-.scope.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-gnome-google\x2dchrome-.scope.d/99-cgroupify.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-gnome-org.gnome.Epiphany-.scope.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-gnome-org.gnome.Epiphany-.scope.d/99-cgroupify.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-google\x2dchrome-.scope.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-google\x2dchrome-.scope.d/99-cgroupify.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-google\x2dchrome@@.service.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-google\x2dchrome@@.service.d/99-cgroupify.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-org.gnome.Epiphany-.scope.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-org.gnome.Epiphany-.scope.d/99-cgroupify.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-org.gnome.Epiphany@@.service.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/app-org.gnome.Epiphany@@.service.d/99-cgroupify.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/at-spi-dbus-bus.service.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/at-spi-dbus-bus.service.d/00-uresourced.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/[email protected]
/usr/lib/systemd/user/dbus-.service.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/dbus-.service.d/00-uresourced.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/dbus-broker.service.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/dbus-broker.service.d/00-uresourced.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/evolution-.service.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/evolution-.service.d/00-uresourced.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/flatpak-.scope.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/flatpak-.scope.d/00-uresourced.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-launched-.scope.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-launched-.scope.d/00-uresourced.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-launched-gnome-system-monitor.desktop-.scope.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-launched-gnome-system-monitor.desktop-.scope.d/00-uresourced.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-launched-org.gnome.Usage.desktop-.scope.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-launched-org.gnome.Usage.desktop-.scope.d/00-uresourced.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-shell-.service.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-shell-.service.d/00-uresourced.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/graphical-session.target.wants
/usr/lib/systemd/user/graphical-session.target.wants/uresourced.service
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gsd-.service.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gsd-.service.d/00-uresourced.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gvfs-.service.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gvfs-.service.d/00-uresourced.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service.d/00-uresourced.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service.d/00-uresourced.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-.service.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-.service.d/00-uresourced.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/uresourced.service
/usr/lib/systemd/user/zeitgeist-.service.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/zeitgeist-.service.d/00-uresourced.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/zeitgeist.service.d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/zeitgeist.service.d/00-uresourced.conf
/usr/libexec/cgroupify
/usr/libexec/uresourced
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.UResourced.conf
/usr/share/doc/uresourced
/usr/share/doc/uresourced/NEWS.md
/usr/share/doc/uresourced/README
/usr/share/licenses/uresourced
/usr/share/licenses/uresourced/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install uresourced on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.