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doc: limit-rate clarify base unit #7439

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jsoref opened this issue Jul 19, 2021 · 3 comments
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doc: limit-rate clarify base unit #7439

jsoref opened this issue Jul 19, 2021 · 3 comments
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jsoref commented Jul 19, 2021

curl/docs/cmdline-opts/limit-rate.d

Lines 12 to 13 in 3085ccf

Appending 'k' or 'K' will count the number as kilobytes, 'm' or 'M' makes it
megabytes, while 'g' or 'G' makes it gigabytes. Examples: 200K, 3m and 1G.

I presume that this k is 2^10, but Wikipedia pretends it means 10^3. (I'm not endorsing this notation, but docs should be clear.)
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bagder commented Jul 19, 2021

They're all 1024-based. So K is 1024, M is 1024 * 1024 and G is 1024 * 1024 * 1024.

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jsoref commented Jul 19, 2021

I don't have prose and I'm not sure how many places should mention it, but this seems like a place that should include it. Happy to talk it out online.

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jsoref commented Jul 20, 2021

curl/docs/cmdline-opts/page-header

Line 164 in 265b14d

second. The suffixes (k, M, G, T, P) are 1024 based. For example 1k is 1024

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