Information about the package, libhugetlbfs-utils, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libhugetlbfs-utils package is designed for, Userspace utilities for configuring the hugepage environment.
Package Name:
libhugetlbfs-utils
Summary:
Userspace utilities for configuring the hugepage environment
Description:
This packages contains a number of utilities that will help administrate the use of huge pages on your system. hugeedit modifies binaries to set default segment remapping behavior. hugectl sets environment variables for using huge pages and then execs the target program. hugeadm gives easy access to huge page pool size control. pagesize lists page sizes available on the machine.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.16
Release:
2.el6
Size:
55 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the libhugetlbfs-utils package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libhugetlbfs-utils
This command will install libhugetlbfs-utils on the server.
yum remove libhugetlbfs-utils
This command will un-install libhugetlbfs-utils on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libhugetlbfs-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libhugetlbfs-utils
This command will un-install libhugetlbfs-utils on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libhugetlbfs-utils when using the -y flag.
yum update libhugetlbfs-utils
This command will update libhugetlbfs-utils to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libhugetlbfs-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libhugetlbfs-utils
This command will update libhugetlbfs-utils to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libhugetlbfs-utils when using the -y flag.
yum info libhugetlbfs-utils
This command will show you core information about the libhugetlbfs-utils package.
yum deplist libhugetlbfs-utils
This command will show you the dependencies for libhugetlbfs-utils. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update libhugetlbfs-utils
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libhugetlbfs-utils. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.