How To Install perftest on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install perftest on Rocky Linux 8. perftest is IB Performance Tests

Introduction

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

What is perftest

Perftest is a collection of simple test programs designed to utilize RDMA communications and provide performance numbers over those RDMA connections. It does not work on normal TCP/IP networks, only on RDMA networks.

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

Install perftest 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 perftest using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perftest

Install perftest 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 perftest using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perftest

How To Uninstall perftest on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove perftest

perftest Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/ib_atomic_bw
/usr/bin/ib_atomic_lat
/usr/bin/ib_read_bw
/usr/bin/ib_read_lat
/usr/bin/ib_send_bw
/usr/bin/ib_send_lat
/usr/bin/ib_write_bw
/usr/bin/ib_write_lat
/usr/bin/raw_ethernet_bw
/usr/bin/raw_ethernet_lat
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/9126f8ed19faff8178b541fc2deb8f5dad8f07
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/5c8ee1c936daec6eb15bf4e39d11abf7e0e0fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/3f46cf2e8ac8c5019afe5ca43a90f8fc3e1ef1
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d/a2929db6c85c09ec1b877d192a69a81900f9f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/9da718e04e703c763c9feef767186ace6c116f
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/8ae0860c0f4ec420910c630cbb01e17c8b8ec2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8/62a6fc89d0b1e7e020129226fb1d87f7c245be
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/24641e638710b3d8bca017c76fd5930b40598d
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/9719c6ca23fea216bd3953c06591222bd1c4f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/2e17170d988c86456cbf2caa7d2aacabdbff76
/usr/share/doc/perftest
/usr/share/doc/perftest/README
/usr/share/licenses/perftest
/usr/share/licenses/perftest/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ib_atomic_bw.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ib_atomic_lat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ib_read_bw.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ib_read_lat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ib_send_bw.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ib_send_lat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ib_write_bw.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ib_write_lat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/raw_ethernet_bw.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/raw_ethernet_lat.1.gz

References

Summary

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