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ps -o rss reports values in kikibytes, not kilobytes: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ps.1.html The command iself then uses 1024 to convert to MiB As the section is about memory estimations, accuracy is important Signed-off-by: Rinkana <39345772+MrRinkana@users.noreply.github.com>
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on debian trixie they say that they use kilobytes.... |
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@tflidd https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/merge_requests/211 Also the division done in the command here is by 1024 which means it cannot be MB (and if PS had been returning KB the resulting value was nonsensical: neither MB or MiB) |
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ps -o rss reports values in kikibytes, not kilobytes: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ps.1.html
The command iself then uses 1024 to convert to MiB
As the section is about memory estimations, accuracy is important
Changes MB to MiB in two locations: the command output and text showing common nextcould fpm memory use