From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20525 invoked by alias); 26 Oct 2016 12:04:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 20505 invoked by uid 89); 26 Oct 2016 12:04:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=lol, wednesday, Wednesday, KiB X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mail.pacific.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add note on MALLOC_MMAP_* environment variables To: siddhesh@sourceware.org References: <57acdb4a-ef0b-0bd8-bc8d-6bb8bbc3aaab@redhat.com> <3e2a1ff2-3d9b-2559-a576-58e432388ba1@pacific.net> <7d130361-6bc1-dff6-f9c0-bdd51fc43fc3@sourceware.org> Cc: "Carlos O'Donell" , libc-alpha@sourceware.org From: Rical Jasan Message-ID: <29b42fbc-e5c9-bd8b-a004-007c025d827a@pacific.net> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:04:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7d130361-6bc1-dff6-f9c0-bdd51fc43fc3@sourceware.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Null-Tag: 6d6bc9d9d1e2a41ff67864fd804ba8c9 X-SW-Source: 2016-10/txt/msg00460.txt.bz2 On 10/26/2016 04:30 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > On Wednesday 26 October 2016 04:56 PM, Rical Jasan wrote: >> On 10/25/2016 09:15 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote: >>>>> +If this parameter is not set, the default value is set as 128 KB and the >>> Should this be 128KiB? >> >> I don't think binary computers count with 10 fingers. At any rate, we >> don't have any ibi's AFAICS: >> >> $ grep -Pi '\d[kmgt]i?b\b' manual/*.texi > > It's the other way around AFAIK, i.e. KiB == 1024 and KB == 1000. Looks > like there are references to kB in code comments, so I'm fine with > changing it to that, or if you want to be absolutely clear, I could just > make it 131072 bytes ;) As unambiguous as possible is best, so if you could fix the 2147483648- and 4294967296-byte references too, that'd be great. lol Rical