Documentation/numastat.txt

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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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