pcp-numastat - Man Page

pcp [pcp options] numastat [-mnV?] [-w width] [-p [process ...]]

pcp-numastat displays NUMA allocation statistics from the kernel memory allocator. Each process has NUMA policies that specify on which node pages are allocated. The performance counters in the kernel track on which nodes memory is allocated and these values are sampled and reported by pcp-numastat.

Counters are maintained individually for each NUMA node. Details of the semantics of each reported metric can be retrieved using the following command:

# pminfo -dt mem.numa.alloc

When invoked via the pcp(1) command, the -h/--host, -a/--archive, -O/--origin, -Z/--timezone and several other pcp options become indirectly available; refer to PCPIntro(1) for a complete description of these options.

The additional command line options available for pcp-numastat are:

-m,  --meminfo

Display meminfo-like system-wide memory usage.

-n,  --numastat

Display the numastat statistics info.

-p,  --process

Display per-process NUMA memory usage from proc.numa_maps metrics. Any trailing process operands are treated as process IDs (when the operand is all digits) or regular expressions for command name matching. Matching for command names is performed against the full command line (as reported by proc.psinfo.psargs). When a single process ID operand is provided and it matches exactly one process, a detailed table of Hugepage, Heap, Stack and Private mappings is shown (as in numastat -p). When multiple process ID operands are provided, a per-process summary table is shown (also like numastat -p) and may be split into multiple node column blocks based on the available display width.

In the per-process view, node columns are always shown for all NUMA nodes present on the system (as reported by PCP NUMA inventory metrics), even if individual proc.numa_maps metric instances omit some nodes. Missing per-process metrics are reported as zero.

-V,  --version

Display the current version of the command.

-w width, --width=width

Limit display to width.

-?,  --help

Display usage message and exit.

pcp-numastat is inspired by the numastat(1) command and produces the same output for the system-wide views. The per-process view (-p) follows the numastat -p layout.

Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize the file and directory names used by PCP. On each installation, the file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these variables. The $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative configuration file, as described in pcp.conf(5).

For environment variables affecting PCP tools, see pmGetOptions(3).

PCPIntro(1), pcp(1) and numastat(1).

pcp(1).