How To Install smem on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install smem
on CentOS 7.
What is smem
smem is a tool that can give numerous reports on memory usage on Linux systems. Unlike existing tools, smem can report proportional set size (PSS), which is a more meaningful representation of the amount of memory used by libraries and applications in a virtual memory system. Because large portions of physical memory are typically shared among multiple applications, the standard measure of memory usage known as resident set size (RSS) will significantly overestimate memory usage. PSS instead measures each application’s “fair share” of each shared area to give a realistic measure.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install smem
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install smem.
Install smem on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install smem
using yum
by running the following command:
Install smem 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.
After updating yum database, We can install smem
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall smem on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the smem
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install smem
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.