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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 this node,
11					but ended up with memory from another.
12numa_foreign		A process wanted to allocate on another node,
13				    but ended up with memory from this 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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