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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.
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11numa_miss A process wanted to allocate memory from another node,
12        but ended up with memory from this node.
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14numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on this node,
15        but ended up with memory from another one.
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17local_node A process ran on this node and got memory from it.
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19other_node A process ran on this node and got memory from another node.
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21interleave_hit Interleaving wanted to allocate from this node
22        and succeeded.
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24For easier reading you can use the numastat utility from the numactl package
25(http://oss.sgi.com/projects/libnuma/). Note that it only works
26well right now on machines with a small number of CPUs.
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