Information about the package, perftest, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perftest package is designed for, IB Performance Tests.
Package Name:
perftest
Summary:
IB Performance Tests
Description:
Perftest is a collection of simple test programs designed to utilize RDMA communications and provide performance numbers over those RDMA connections. It does not work on normal TCP/IP networks, only on RDMA networks.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.0
Release:
2.0.16.gb2f2e82.el6
Size:
144 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2 or BSD
Control the perftest package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perftest
This command will install perftest on the server.
yum remove perftest
This command will un-install perftest on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perftest, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perftest
This command will un-install perftest 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 perftest when using the -y flag.
yum update perftest
This command will update perftest to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perftest, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perftest
This command will update perftest 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 perftest when using the -y flag.
yum info perftest
This command will show you core information about the perftest package.
yum deplist perftest
This command will show you the dependencies for perftest. 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 perftest
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perftest. 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.