From 23b0bdf46477b8b89d5e4770d09f2d0ffefe5385 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Sparrow <793763+sparrowt@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:30:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Review comments for memory size manual clarifications --- htop.1.in | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/htop.1.in b/htop.1.in index b5822932..1f03f075 100644 --- a/htop.1.in +++ b/htop.1.in @@ -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),