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 | Numa policy hit/miss statistics | 
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 | /sys/devices/system/node/node*/numastat | 
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 | All units are pages. Hugepages have separate counters. | 
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 | 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. | 
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 | 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. | 
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