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author | Tom Sparrow <793763+sparrowt@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-12-11 17:12:48 +0000 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-12-11 17:12:48 +0000 |
commit | cabb95ea92a09f1482fe3fccb9f4dabaef08462b (patch) | |
tree | 500c8d027431e34b5002333b22339d9e161d5613 /htop.1.in | |
parent | 92a68c097fc349c5efdf9329da718b26b0814a48 (diff) |
Note in manual re default memory units of KiB
Addresses https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/issues/1340
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -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), |