Information about the package, numactl, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The numactl package is designed for, Library for tuning for Non Uniform Memory Access machines.
Package Name:
numactl
Summary:
Library for tuning for Non Uniform Memory Access machines
Description:
Simple NUMA policy support. It consists of a numactl program to run other programs with a specific NUMA policy and a libnuma to do allocations with NUMA policy in applications.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.0.9
Release:
2.el6
Size:
74 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2/GPLv2
Control the numactl package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install numactl
This command will install numactl on the server.
yum remove numactl
This command will un-install numactl on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove numactl, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove numactl
This command will un-install numactl 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 numactl when using the -y flag.
yum update numactl
This command will update numactl to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove numactl, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update numactl
This command will update numactl 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 numactl when using the -y flag.
yum info numactl
This command will show you core information about the numactl package.
yum deplist numactl
This command will show you the dependencies for numactl. 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 numactl
This command will check if there is an update waiting on numactl. 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.