Re: Bug in stats, KB/s vs. KiB/s?

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On Mon, Apr 20 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 19 2009, Carl Henrik Lunde wrote:
> > Hi!  I think there's a bug in the stats report:
> > 
> > When I specify rate=8192 I got 8388 KiB/s in the report, which happens
> > to be 8192*1.024.
> > 
> > I believe the problem is that bytes / ms is used as KiB/s.  I'm not
> > sure what the correct value of "base" should be (1000 vs. 1024), but
> > it doesn't affect the result.  I haven't reviewed all the reporting,
> > but at least I *think* these three are wrong.
> 
> Hmm, it actually seems like the reporting is correct, but that the rate
> throttling is off by 1024/1000. So the fix is likely there somewhere,
> I'll take a look.

Hmm nope, I think you are right, it's the reporting. Looking further...

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Jens Axboe

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