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2 Numa policy hit/miss statistics
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4 /sys/devices/system/node/node*/numastat
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6 All units are pages. Hugepages have separate counters.
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8 numa_hit A process wanted to allocate memory from this node,
9 and succeeded.
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11 numa_miss A process wanted to allocate memory from another node,
12 but ended up with memory from this node.
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14 numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on this node,
15 but ended up with memory from another one.
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17 local_node A process ran on this node and got memory from it.
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19 other_node A process ran on this node and got memory from another node.
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21 interleave_hit Interleaving wanted to allocate from this node
22 and succeeded.
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24 For easier reading you can use the numastat utility from the numactl package
25 (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/libnuma/). Note that it only works
26 well right now on machines with a small number of CPUs.
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