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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.
@@ -20,6 +22,7 @@ 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
(http://oss.sgi.com/projects/libnuma/). Note that it only works