numastat - Show per-NUMA-node memory statistics for processes and the
operating system
numastat
numastat [
-V]
numastat [
<PID>|<pattern>...]
numastat [
-c] [
-m] [
-n] [
-p
<PID>|<pattern>] [
-s[<node>]] [
-v]
[
-z] [
<PID>|<pattern>...]
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.
- -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.
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.
- NUMASTAT_WIDTH
/proc/*/numa_maps
/sys/devices/system/node/node*/meminfo
/sys/devices/system/node/node*/numastat
numastat -c -z -m -n
numastat -czs libvirt kvm qemu
watch -n1 numastat
watch -n1 --differences=cumulative numastat
The original
numastat perl script was written circa 2003 by Andi Kleen
<
[email protected]>. The current
numastat program was written
in 2012 by Bill Gray <
[email protected]> 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.
numactl(8),
set_mempolicy(2),
numa(3)