Information about the package, numad, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The numad package is designed for, NUMA user daemon.
Package Name:
numad
Summary:
NUMA user daemon
Description:
Numad, a daemon for NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Architecture) systems, that monitors NUMA characteristics and manages placement of processes and memory to minimize memory latency and thus provide optimum performance.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.5
Release:
12.20150602git.el6
Size:
31 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2
Control the numad package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install numad
This command will install numad on the server.
yum remove numad
This command will un-install numad on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove numad, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove numad
This command will un-install numad 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 numad when using the -y flag.
yum update numad
This command will update numad to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove numad, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update numad
This command will update numad 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 numad when using the -y flag.
yum info numad
This command will show you core information about the numad package.
yum deplist numad
This command will show you the dependencies for numad. 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 numad
This command will check if there is an update waiting on numad. 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.