How To Install gperftools on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install gperftools on CentOS 7. gperftools is Very fast malloc and performance analysis tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gperftools on CentOS 7.

What is gperftools

Perf Tools is a collection of performance analysis tools, including a high-performance multi-threaded malloc() implementation that works particularly well with threads and STL, a thread-friendly heap-checker, a heap profiler, and a cpu-profiler. This is a metapackage which pulls in all of the gperftools (and pprof) binaries, libraries, and development headers, so that you can use them.

We can use yum or dnf to install gperftools on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gperftools.

Install gperftools on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install gperftools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gperftools

Install gperftools on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install gperftools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gperftools

How To Uninstall gperftools on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove gperftools

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gperftools on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.