From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 41400 invoked by alias); 26 Oct 2016 11:30:33 -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 41346 invoked by uid 89); 26 Oct 2016 11:30:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=wednesday, Hx-languages-length:674, Wednesday, KiB X-HELO: homiemail-a42.g.dreamhost.com Reply-To: siddhesh@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add note on MALLOC_MMAP_* environment variables References: <57acdb4a-ef0b-0bd8-bc8d-6bb8bbc3aaab@redhat.com> <3e2a1ff2-3d9b-2559-a576-58e432388ba1@pacific.net> To: Rical Jasan , Carlos O'Donell Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org From: Siddhesh Poyarekar Message-ID: <7d130361-6bc1-dff6-f9c0-bdd51fc43fc3@sourceware.org> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:30:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3e2a1ff2-3d9b-2559-a576-58e432388ba1@pacific.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-10/txt/msg00459.txt.bz2 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 ;) Siddhesh