Information about the package, gperftools, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The gperftools package is designed for, Very fast malloc and performance analysis tools.
Package Name:
gperftools
Summary:
Very fast malloc and performance analysis tools
Description:
Perf Tools is a collection of performance analysis tools, including a high-performance multi-threaded malloc() implementation that works particularly well with threads and STL, a thread-friendly heap-checker, a heap profiler, and a cpu-profiler. This is a metapackage which pulls in all of the gperftools (and pprof) binaries, libraries, and development headers, so that you can use them.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.0
Release:
11.el6.3
Size:
7.9 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the gperftools package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install gperftools
This command will install gperftools on the server.
yum remove gperftools
This command will un-install gperftools on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gperftools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove gperftools
This command will un-install gperftools 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 gperftools when using the -y flag.
yum update gperftools
This command will update gperftools to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gperftools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update gperftools
This command will update gperftools 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 gperftools when using the -y flag.
yum info gperftools
This command will show you core information about the gperftools package.
yum deplist gperftools
This command will show you the dependencies for gperftools. 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 gperftools
This command will check if there is an update waiting on gperftools. 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.