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| author | Tom Sparrow <793763+sparrowt@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-12-13 10:30:59 +0000 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-12-13 10:30:59 +0000 |
| commit | 23b0bdf46477b8b89d5e4770d09f2d0ffefe5385 (patch) | |
| tree | 00c59f70e5b61bb0ddd2e1d220f985825fc13cc5 /htop.1.in | |
| parent | cabb95ea92a09f1482fe3fccb9f4dabaef08462b (diff) | |
Review comments for memory size manual clarifications
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| -rw-r--r-- | htop.1.in | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -655,13 +655,13 @@ is only saved when a clean exit is performed. Sending any signal will cause Memory sizes in .B htop are displayed in a human-readable form. -Sizes are printed in powers of 1024. (e.g., 1023M = 1072693248 Bytes) -If no suffix is shown the units are implicitly KiB. +Sizes are printed in powers of 1024 using binary IEC units. +If no suffix is shown the units are implicitly K as in KiB (kibibyte, 1 KiB = 1024 bytes). .LP The decision to use this convention was made in order to conserve screen space and make memory size representations consistent throughout -.BR htop -as allocations are granular to full memory pages, typically 4KiB. +.B htop +as allocations are granular to full memory pages (4 KiB for most platforms). .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR proc (5), .BR top (1), |