How To Install latencytop on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install latencytop on CentOS 7.
What is latencytop
LatencyTOP is a tool for software developers (both kernel and userspace), aimed at identifying where in the system latency is happening, and what kind of operation/action is causing the latency to happen so that the code can be changed to avoid the worst latency hiccups. This package contains a build of LatencyTOP with GUI interface. For a build without GUI install latencytop-tui instead.
We can use yum or dnf to install latencytop on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install latencytop.
Install latencytop on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install latencytop using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install latencytop
Install latencytop 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 latencytop using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install latencytop
How To Uninstall latencytop on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the latencytop package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove latencytop
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install latencytop on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
