Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:44:31 -0700 | From | Balbir Singh <> | Subject | Re: [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly |
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Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sun, 2028-02-27 at 02:39 -0500, Balbir Singh wrote: > >> I am not a CLUI expert, but rounding off bytes will something that >> the administrators will probably complain about. Since we manage >> the controller memory in pages, it might be the easiest unit to use. >> The output is totally different matter. >> >> Having said that, I am not opposed to your suggestion, I'll see if >> I can find good CLUI guidelines. > > Pages are generally considered a bad unit for user-space exposed > parameters because a page can have a wide spectrum of sizes on some > machines. >
Exactly!
> The typical unit used in its stead is KiB. Although I could imagine MiB > being more useful in this case :-) >
I think a routine that can handle either KiB or MiB would probably be the best
> Perhaps a new proc parser that takes postfix [KMG] units would be > handy.. >
Hmm.. yes.. a library routine would be nice!
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