How To Install numad on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install numad on Rocky Linux 8. numad is NUMA user daemon

Introduction

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

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install numad.

Install numad 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 numad using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install numad

Install numad 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 numad using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install numad

How To Uninstall numad on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove numad

numad Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/logrotate.d/numad
/usr/bin/numad
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/011be1c0690fdee0ccb03bac25b37bef262b09
/usr/lib/systemd/system/numad.service
/usr/share/man/man8/numad.8.gz

References

Summary

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