On Tue, 14 May 2024 at 17:40, Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote: > > On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 11:22:08AM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: > > Since json (and yaml/xml) is intended to be machine-readable I think we use > > a > > single unit for all values, and document this fact. > > Agreed with the documentation gap. Another thing that could be worth > considering is to add the units aside with the numerical values, say: > "Memory Used": {"value": 23432, "units": "bytes"} > > That would require changing ExplainProperty() so as the units are > showed in some shape, while still being readable when parsed. I > wouldn't recommend doing that in v17, but perhaps v18 could do better?
I think for v17, we should consider adding a macro to explain.c to calculate the KB from bytes. There are other inconsistencies that it would be good to address. We normally round up to the nearest kilobyte with (bytes + 1023) / 1024, but if you look at what 06286709e did, it seems to be rounding to the nearest without any apparent justification as to why. It does (metrics->bytesSent + 512) / 1024. show_memory_counters() could be modified to use the macro and show kilobytes rather than bytes. David