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authorGeunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>2012-02-24 21:12:23 -0500
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2012-02-28 10:05:06 -0500
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Doc: Update numastat.txt
The existing numactl website is no longer working. Change website information of numactl/libnuma utility. And, Rearrange tab space for readability. Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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6All units are pages. Hugepages have separate counters. 6All units are pages. Hugepages have separate counters.
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8numa_hit A process wanted to allocate memory from this node, 8numa_hit A process wanted to allocate memory from this node,
9 and succeeded. 9 and succeeded.
10numa_miss A process wanted to allocate memory from another node, 10
11 but ended up with memory from this node. 11numa_miss A process wanted to allocate memory from another node,
12numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on this node, 12 but ended up with memory from this node.
13 but ended up with memory from another one. 13
14local_node A process ran on this node and got memory from it. 14numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on this node,
15other_node A process ran on this node and got memory from another node. 15 but ended up with memory from another one.
16interleave_hit Interleaving wanted to allocate from this node 16
17 and succeeded. 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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19For easier reading you can use the numastat utility from the numactl package 24For 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 25(http://oss.sgi.com/projects/libnuma/). Note that it only works
21well right now on machines with a small number of CPUs. 26well right now on machines with a small number of CPUs.
22 27