Using GB instad of GiB in indicator-multiload popup
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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System Load Indicator |
Fix Committed
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Wishlist
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Michael Hofmann |
Bug Description
The RAM (memory) values presented in indicator popup does not match with the same values in Gnome System Monitor (let's abbreviate it as SM).
This is because indicator-multiload is using GB instead of GiB, values in GiB is more understandable / comprehensible for me.
For example, about memory used, SM shows 7.0 GiB and indicator shows 7.5GB.
The same occurs in total / physical memory, my system has 8 GB of RAM, Ubuntu recognizes about ~7.7 GB and SM represents correctly this value, "free" command too... but indicator shows 8.3 MB. Totally confusing.
Would be great to parameterize that: I like to see GiB-like values but other users like to see GB-like values.
Ubuntu 16.04.1 64bits
Thanks!!
summary: |
- Wrong RAM values in indicator-multiload popup. + Using GB instad of GiB in indicator-multiload popup |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: units-policy xenial |
I've added a size2 function that uses IEC units in trunk, but at the moment, I'm not going to change the default menu entries, as reasoning about anything in base-2 units gets really complicated really fast.
A compiled version can be found at https:/ /launchpad. net/~indicator- multiload/ +archive/ ubuntu/ daily. You can then adjust the menu entries yourself.
Hope that helps!