On Mon 11-04-16 08:35:00, Alexandru Juncu wrote: > On 11 April 2016 at 08:12, Michal Hocko <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun 10-04-16 17:23:11, Alexandru Juncu wrote: > >> Current values are based on multiples of 1024 (powers of 2) > >> which means that the values in meminfo are not kilobytes > >> (1000 bytes) but kibibytes (1024 bytes). The correct > >> prefix for that would be 'Ki' so the output should be 'KiB'. > > > > Does the difference actually matters so much that we should change a > > user visible format of a file? Some users might not ready to changes > > (say sombody did sed 's@.*:[[:space:]]*\([0-9]*\) kB@\1@' to get values. > > This change would break it which is something we try to prevent as much > > as possible. > > > > So I do not think this all is worth the potential troubles. There are > > probably other places where we present kB while we in fact think kiB. > > Isn't it at least worth clearly specifying this in the documentation > (maybe also comment in code)?
Sure, improving our documentation is highly appreciated of course. Thanks! -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
