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authorTom Sparrow <793763+sparrowt@users.noreply.github.com>2023-12-11 17:12:48 +0000
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2023-12-11 17:12:48 +0000
commitcabb95ea92a09f1482fe3fccb9f4dabaef08462b (patch)
tree500c8d027431e34b5002333b22339d9e161d5613 /htop.1.in
parent92a68c097fc349c5efdf9329da718b26b0814a48 (diff)
Note in manual re default memory units of KiB
Addresses https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/issues/1340
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@@ -656,10 +656,12 @@ 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.
.LP
The decision to use this convention was made in order to conserve screen
space and make memory size representations consistent throughout
-.BR htop .
+.BR htop
+as allocations are granular to full memory pages, typically 4KiB.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR proc (5),
.BR top (1),

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