How To Install numad on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install numad on CentOS 7.
What is numad
Numad, a daemon for NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Architecture) systems, that monitors NUMA characteristics and manages placement of processes and memory to minimize memory latency and thus provide optimum performance.
We can use yum or dnf to install numad on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install numad.
Install numad on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install numad using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install numad
Install numad 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 numad using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install numad
How To Uninstall numad on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the numad package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove numad
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install numad on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
