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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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