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6All units are pages. Hugepages have separate counters. 6All units are pages. Hugepages have separate counters.
7 7
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.
10 10numa_miss A process wanted to allocate memory from another node,
11numa_miss A process wanted to allocate memory from another node, 11 but ended up with memory from this node.
12 but ended up with memory from this node. 12numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on this node,
13 13 but ended up with memory from another one.
14numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on this node, 14local_node A process ran on this node and got memory from it.
15 but ended up with memory from another one. 15other_node A process ran on this node and got memory from another node.
16 16interleave_hit Interleaving wanted to allocate from this node
17local_node A process ran on this node and got memory from it. 17 and succeeded.
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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 19For easier reading you can use the numastat utility from the numactl package
25(http://oss.sgi.com/projects/libnuma/). Note that it only works 20(ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ak/numa/numactl*). Note that it only works
26well right now on machines with a small number of CPUs. 21well right now on machines with a small number of CPUs.
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