How To Install libvmmalloc on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvmmalloc on Rocky Linux 8. libvmmalloc is Dynamic to Persistent Memory allocation translation library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvmmalloc on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libvmmalloc

The libvmmalloc library transparently converts all the dynamic memory allocations into persistent memory allocations. This allows the use of persistent memory as volatile memory without modifying the target application. The typical usage of libvmmalloc is to load it via the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.

We can use yum or dnf to install libvmmalloc on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvmmalloc.

Install libvmmalloc on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install libvmmalloc

Install libvmmalloc on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install libvmmalloc

How To Uninstall libvmmalloc on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libvmmalloc

libvmmalloc Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/83236c2a0c18d5778145f9aaf3e767a3640681
/usr/lib64/libvmmalloc.so.1
/usr/lib64/libvmmalloc.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libvmmalloc
/usr/share/doc/libvmmalloc/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/libvmmalloc/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libvmmalloc/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libvmmalloc
/usr/share/licenses/libvmmalloc/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvmmalloc on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.