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Documentation / numastat.txt

Based on kernel version 2.6.25. Page generated on 2008-04-18 21:22 EST.

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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.
10	numa_miss			A process wanted to allocate memory from this node,
11						but ended up with memory from another.
12	numa_foreign		A process wanted to allocate on another node,
13					    but ended up with memory from this one.
14	local_node			A process ran on this node and got memory from it.
15	other_node			A process ran on this node and got memory from another node.
16	interleave_hit 		Interleaving wanted to allocate from this node
17						and succeeded.
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19	For easier reading you can use the numastat utility from the numactl package
20	(ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ak/numa/numactl*). Note that it only works
21	well right now on machines with a small number of CPUs.
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