Information about the package, libhugetlbfs, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libhugetlbfs package is designed for, A library which provides easy access to huge pages of memory.
Package Name:
libhugetlbfs
Summary:
A library which provides easy access to huge pages of memory
Description:
libhugetlbfs is a library which provides easy access to huge pages of memory. It is a wrapper for the hugetlbfs file system. Applications can use huge pages to fulfill malloc() requests without being recompiled by using LD_PRELOAD. Alternatively, applications can be linked against libhugetlbfs without source modifications to load BSS or BSS, data, and text segments into large pages.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.16
Release:
2.el6
Size:
71 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the libhugetlbfs package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libhugetlbfs
This command will install libhugetlbfs on the server.
yum remove libhugetlbfs
This command will un-install libhugetlbfs on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libhugetlbfs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libhugetlbfs
This command will un-install libhugetlbfs 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 when using the -y flag.
yum update libhugetlbfs
This command will update libhugetlbfs to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libhugetlbfs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libhugetlbfs
This command will update libhugetlbfs 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 when using the -y flag.
yum info libhugetlbfs
This command will show you core information about the libhugetlbfs package.
yum deplist libhugetlbfs
This command will show you the dependencies for libhugetlbfs. 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
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libhugetlbfs. 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.