# Installer numactl avec Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, Nix, pacman, zypper

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de numactl pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:numactl
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install numactl
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add numactl
```

  Preuve: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: numactl from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install numactl
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: numactl from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install numactl
```

  Preuve: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: numactl from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#numactl
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/nu/numactl/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S numactl
```

  Preuve: Arch Linux sync databases: numactl from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install numactl
```

  Preuve: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: numactl from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:numactl
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.0.19
- **Résumé source:** NUMA support for Linux
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/numactl/numactl>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/numactl/numactl>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- memhog (alias)
- migratepages (alias)
- migspeed (alias)
- numactl (alias)
- numademo (alias)
- numastat (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 2.0.19
## Historique du projet et usages

numactl is the standard Linux user-space tool and companion library package for controlling NUMA scheduling and memory placement policy. It includes the `numactl` command, libnuma, and utilities such as `numastat` and `memhog`.

### Historique du projet

numactl grew out of early Linux 2.6 NUMA policy work. LWN published Andi Kleen's January 2004 announcement of a Linux 2.6 NUMA policy API implementation consisting of kernel policy API support, libnuma for applications, the `numactl` user-space policy tool, and test programs.

The current GitHub README keeps the same project definition: simple NUMA policy support, with a `numactl` program to run other programs under a specific NUMA policy and a libnuma shared library for applications. The README also states that the libnuma binary interface is intended to stay binary compatible, with incompatible changes using new symbol versions.

### Historique d'adoption

numactl became part of the normal Linux performance and systems toolbox because multi-socket and large-memory machines make memory locality observable. Linux man-pages document it as the command for running processes with specific NUMA scheduling or memory placement policy, inherited by child processes, and for setting persistent policy on shared memory segments or files.

Distribution adoption is broad. The av.db source record maps numactl/libnuma packages across Alpine, Debian, Fedora, Nix, Arch, Ubuntu, and openSUSE; Homebrew packages it for Linux bottles and showed stable 2.0.19 with 28,653 installs over the visible 365-day analytics window on July 1, 2026.

### Modes d'utilisation

Typical practical commands include `numactl --hardware` to inspect NUMA topology, `numactl --cpunodebind` or `--physcpubind` to bind CPU execution, `--membind` or `--preferred` to steer memory allocation, and `--interleave` to distribute pages across nodes. `numastat` is used to inspect allocation behavior after a workload runs.

Package nerds and performance engineers use numactl when benchmarking databases, JVMs, scientific workloads, ML training/inference processes, or any memory-bandwidth-sensitive service where scheduler placement and page locality can change results. The lazy but correct rule is to measure: pinning can help controlled benchmarks and production isolation, but bad bindings can make performance worse.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

numactl is a small package with outsized systems significance. It exposes Linux NUMA policy to shell users and gives C/C++ programs libnuma, making it one of the common bridges between kernel memory policy and practical performance tuning.

### Chronologie

- 2004-01: LWN carried Andi Kleen's announcement of libnuma/numactl and the Linux 2.6 NUMA policy API implementation.
- 2003-2005: numactl source headers credit Andi Kleen/SuSE Labs work on command-line NUMA policy control.
- 2026-07-01: Homebrew formula showed stable 2.0.19 and Linux-only bottle support.

### Related projects

- Linux kernel NUMA policy
- libnuma
- numastat
- taskset
- hwloc

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/numactl>
- <https://github.com/numactl/numactl>
- <https://github.com/numactl/numactl/blob/master/numactl.c>
- <https://lwn.net/Articles/67005/>
- <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/numa.3.html>
- <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/numactl.8.html>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - libnuma-dev - 2.0.19-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libnuma-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Development files for libnuma | https://github.com/numactl/numactl
- Debian apt - libnuma1 - 2.0.19-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libnuma1 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Libraries for controlling NUMA policy | https://github.com/numactl/numactl
- Debian apt - numactl - 2.0.19-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: numactl from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | NUMA scheduling and memory placement tool | https://github.com/numactl/numactl
- Nix - numactl: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/nu/numactl/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - libnuma-dev - 2.0.18-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libnuma-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Development files for libnuma | https://github.com/numactl/numactl
- Ubuntu apt - libnuma1 - 2.0.18-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libnuma1 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Libraries for controlling NUMA policy | https://github.com/numactl/numactl
- Ubuntu apt - numactl - 2.0.18-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: numactl from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | NUMA scheduling and memory placement tool | https://github.com/numactl/numactl
- apk - numactl - 2.0.19-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: numactl from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Simple NUMA policy support | https://github.com/numactl/numactl
- apk - numactl-dev - 2.0.19-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: numactl-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Simple NUMA policy support (development files) | https://github.com/numactl/numactl
- apk - numactl-doc - 2.0.19-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: numactl-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Simple NUMA policy support (documentation) | https://github.com/numactl/numactl
- apk - numactl-tools - 2.0.19-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: numactl-tools from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | NUMA policy control tools | https://github.com/numactl/numactl
- dnf - numactl - 2.0.19-5.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: numactl from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Library for tuning for Non Uniform Memory Access machines | https://github.com/numactl/numactl
- dnf - numactl-devel - 2.0.19-5.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: numactl-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Development package for building Applications that use numa | https://github.com/numactl/numactl
- dnf - numactl-libs - 2.0.19-5.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: numactl-libs from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | libnuma libraries | https://github.com/numactl/numactl
- pacman - numactl - 2.0.19-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: numactl from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Simple NUMA policy support | https://github.com/numactl/numactl
- zypper - libnuma-devel - 2.0.19.27.gc9475de-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libnuma-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | NUMA Policy Control | https://github.com/numactl/numactl/releases


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/numactl.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/numactl.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
