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2Numa policy hit/miss statistics
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4/sys/devices/system/node/node*/numastat
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6All units are pages. Hugepages have separate counters.
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8numa_hit A process wanted to allocate memory from this node,
9                    and succeeded.
10numa_miss A process wanted to allocate memory from another node,
11                    but ended up with memory from this node.
12numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on this node,
13                    but ended up with memory from another one.
14local_node A process ran on this node and got memory from it.
15other_node A process ran on this node and got memory from another node.
16interleave_hit Interleaving wanted to allocate from this node
17                    and succeeded.
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19For 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
21well right now on machines with a small number of CPUs.
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