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authorGeunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>2012-02-25 11:12:23 +0900
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2012-02-28 16:05:06 +0100
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The existing numactl website is no longer working. Change website information of numactl/libnuma utility. And, Rearrange tab space for readability. Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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@@ -5,18 +5,23 @@ Numa policy hit/miss statistics
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 another node,
- but ended up with memory from this node.
-numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on this node,
- but ended up with memory from another 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.
+numa_hit A process wanted to allocate memory from this node,
+ and succeeded.
+
+numa_miss A process wanted to allocate memory from another node,
+ but ended up with memory from this node.
+
+numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on this node,
+ but ended up with memory from another 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
+(http://oss.sgi.com/projects/libnuma/). Note that it only works
well right now on machines with a small number of CPUs.
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