Ubuntu Manpage: numastat - Show per-NUMA-node memory statistics for processes and the operating system

NAME

       numastat - Show per-NUMA-node memory statistics for processes and the operating system

SYNTAX

       numastat

       numastat [-V]

       numastat [<PID>|<pattern>...]

       numastat [-c] [-m] [-n] [-p <PID>|<pattern>] [-s[<node>]] [-v] [-z] [<PID>|<pattern>...]

DESCRIPTION

numastat with no command options or arguments at all, displays per-node NUMA hit and miss
system statistics from the kernel memory allocator. This default numastat behavior is
strictly compatible with the previous long-standing numastat perl script, written by Andi
Kleen. The default numastat statistics shows per-node numbers (in units of pages of
memory) in these categories:

numa_hit is memory successfully allocated on this node as intended.

numa_miss is memory allocated on this node despite the process preferring some different
node. Each numa_miss has a numa_foreign on another node.

numa_foreign is memory intended for this node, but actually allocated on some different
node. Each numa_foreign has a numa_miss on another node.

interleave_hit is interleaved memory successfully allocated on this node as intended.

local_node is memory allocated on this node while a process was running on it.

other_node is memory allocated on this node while a process was running on some other
node.

Any supplied options or arguments with the numastat command will significantly change both
the content and the format of the display. Specified options will cause display units to
change to megabytes of memory, and will change other specific behaviors of numastat as
described below.

Memory usage information reflects the resident pages on the system.

OPTIONS

-c Minimize table display width by dynamically shrinking column widths based on data
contents. With this option, amounts of memory will be rounded to the nearest
megabyte (rather than the usual display with two decimal places). Column width and
inter-column spacing will be somewhat unpredictable with this option, but the more
dense display will be very useful on systems with many NUMA nodes.

-m Show the meminfo-like system-wide memory usage information. This option produces a
per-node breakdown of memory usage information similar to that found in
/proc/meminfo.

-n Show the original numastat statistics info. This will show the same information as
the default numastat behavior but the units will be megabytes of memory, and there
will be other formatting and layout changes versus the original numastat behavior.

-p <PID> or <pattern>
Show per-node memory allocation information for the specified PID or pattern. If
the -p argument is only digits, it is assumed to be a numerical PID. If the
argument characters are not only digits, it is assumed to be a text fragment
pattern to search for in process command lines. For example, numastat -p qemu will
attempt to find and show information for processes with "qemu" in the command line.
Any command line arguments remaining after numastat option flag processing is
completed, are assumed to be additional <PID> or <pattern> process specifiers. In
this sense, the -p option flag is optional: numastat qemu is equivalent to numastat
-p qemu

-s[<node>]
Sort the table data in descending order before displaying it, so the biggest memory
consumers are listed first. With no specified <node>, the table will be sorted by
the total column. If the optional <node> argument is supplied, the data will be
sorted by the <node> column. Note that <node> must follow the -s immediately with
no intermediate white space (e.g., numastat -s2). Because -s can allow an optional
argument, it must always be the last option character in a compound option
character string. For example, instead of numastat -msc (which probably will not
work as you expect), use numastat -mcs

-v Make some reports more verbose. In particular, process information for multiple
processes will display detailed information for each process. Normally when per-
node information for multiple processes is displayed, only the total lines are
shown.

-V Display numastat version information and exit.

-z Skip display of table rows and columns of only zero valuess. This can be used to
greatly reduce the amount of uninteresting zero data on systems with many NUMA
nodes. Note that when rows or columns of zeros are still displayed with this
option, that probably means there is at least one value in the row or column that
is actually non-zero, but rounded to zero for display.

NOTES

       numastat  attempts  to  fold each table display so it will be conveniently readable on the
       output terminal.  Normally a terminal width of 80 characters is assumed.  When the  resize
       command  is available, numastat attempts to dynamically determine and fine tune the output
       tty width from resize output.  If numastat output is not to a tty, very long output  lines
       can be produced, depending on how many NUMA nodes are present.  In all cases, output width
       can be explicitly specified via the NUMASTAT_WIDTH  environment  variable.   For  example,
       NUMASTAT_WIDTH=100  numastat.  On systems with many NUMA nodes, numastat -c -z .... can be
       very helpful to selectively reduce the amount of displayed information.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       NUMASTAT_WIDTH

FILES

       /proc/*/numa_maps
       /sys/devices/system/node/node*/meminfo
       /sys/devices/system/node/node*/numastat

EXAMPLES

       numastat -c -z -m -n
       numastat -czs libvirt kvm qemu
       watch -n1 numastat
       watch -n1 --differences=cumulative numastat

AUTHORS

       The  original  numastat   perl   script   was   written   circa   2003   by   Andi   Kleen
       <andi.kleen@intel.com>.   The  current  numastat  program was written in 2012 by Bill Gray
       <bgray@redhat.com> to be compatible by default with the original, and to  add  options  to
       display per-node system memory usage and per-node process memory allocation.