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Message-Id: <1183981098.1913.22.camel@twins>
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:38:18 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly
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.
The typical unit used in its stead is KiB. Although I could imagine MiB
being more useful in this case :-)
Perhaps a new proc parser that takes postfix [KMG] units would be
handy..
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