diff --git a/Documentation/numastat.txt b/Documentation/numastat.txt index 520327790d54..aaf1667489f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/numastat.txt +++ b/Documentation/numastat.txt @@ -1,10 +1,12 @@ - +=============================== 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