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+Numa policy hit/miss statistics
+
+/sys/devices/system/node/node*/numastat
+
+All units are pages. Hugepages have separate counters.
+
+numa_hit                        A process wanted to allocate memory from this node,
+                                        and succeeded.
+numa_miss                       A process wanted to allocate memory from this node,
+                                        but ended up with memory from another.
+numa_foreign            A process wanted to allocate on another node,
+                                    but ended up with memory from this one.
+local_node                      A process ran on this node and got memory from it.
+other_node                      A process ran on this node and got memory from another node.
+interleave_hit          Interleaving wanted to allocate from this node
+                                        and succeeded.
+
+For easier reading you can use the numastat utility from the numactl package
+(ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ak/numa/numactl*). Note that it only works
+well right now on machines with a small number of CPUs.
+