On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:06:27 +0100 "Darac Marjal
mailingl...@darac.org.uk" sent this:
>On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 03:30:26PM +1000, Charlie wrote:
>>
>> I use GKrellM to monitor some things including my
>> Ethernet connection on a Debian Wheezy Operating
>> system on an Acer 3614WLCI Aspire laptop with 512MB
>> RAM.
>>
>> I know the computer is old, but GKrellM registers my Ethernet as 235
>> or 345 or 180 or 4.1K or 2.6K or whatever.
>>
>> I have googles it but I'm obviously too thick to understand it, what
>> are the plain numbers and I think the "K" numbers are ? Kilobits not
>> Kilobytes.
>>
>> Can someone who knows, just give me some pointers of what I'm
>> reading on GKrellM please.
>
>As the saying goes "Use the source, Luke"...
>
>In src/net.c in the upstream tarball I find the following at line 1156:
>
>static GkrellmSizeAbbrev current_bytes_abbrev[] =
> {
> { KB_SIZE(1),
> 1, "%.0f" },
> { KB_SIZE(20),
> KB_SIZE(1), "%.1fK" },
> { MB_SIZE(1),
> KB_SIZE(1), "%.0fK" },
>...
>
>So it would appear to indicate kiloBYTES.
>
Thanks Darac,
So the capital "K" is kilobytes.
Thanks for that.
Charlie
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