Information about the package, plpa, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The plpa package is designed for, Portable Linux Processor Affinity.
Package Name:
plpa
Summary:
Portable Linux Processor Affinity
Description:
PLPA is an attempt to solve the problem that there are multiple API's for processor affinity within Linux. Specifically, the functions sched_setaffinity() and sched_getaffinity() have numbers and types of parameters depending on your Linux vendor and/or version of GLibc. This is quite problematic for applications attempting to use processor affinity in Linux for compile-time, link-time, and run-time reasons.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.3.2
Release:
2.1.el6
Size:
17 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD and AMDPLPA
Control the plpa package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install plpa
This command will install plpa on the server.
yum remove plpa
This command will un-install plpa on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove plpa, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove plpa
This command will un-install plpa 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 plpa when using the -y flag.
yum update plpa
This command will update plpa to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove plpa, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update plpa
This command will update plpa 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 plpa when using the -y flag.
yum info plpa
This command will show you core information about the plpa package.
yum deplist plpa
This command will show you the dependencies for plpa. 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 plpa
This command will check if there is an update waiting on plpa. 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.