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authorGerhard Lazu <gerhard@lazu.co.uk>2019-04-23 16:08:01 +0100
committerGerhard Lazu <gerhard@lazu.co.uk>2019-04-23 16:08:01 +0100
commit738604543a31f6ba5c5b92f475a85295c636df33 (patch)
treec04b36480b0630ab8f1eec160297b1b41d5d007f /docs/rabbitmq.conf.example
parent9d898823c30ff0e56d97053764b2708a299c46eb (diff)
downloadrabbitmq-server-git-738604543a31f6ba5c5b92f475a85295c636df33.tar.gz
Clarify unit symbols
RabbitMQ supports both power of 2 & power of 10 unit symbols. Giving clear examples of the difference - it's a mistake easy to make.
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@@ -307,11 +307,14 @@
##
# vm_memory_high_watermark.absolute = 2GB
##
-## Supported units suffixes:
-##
-## kb, KB: kibibytes (2^10 bytes)
-## mb, MB: mebibytes (2^20)
-## gb, GB: gibibytes (2^30)
+## Supported unit symbols:
+##
+## k, kiB: kibibytes (2^10 - 1,024 bytes)
+## M, MiB: mebibytes (2^20 - 1,048,576 bytes)
+## G, GiB: gibibytes (2^30 - 1,073,741,824 bytes)
+## kB: kilobytes (10^3 - 1,000 bytes)
+## MB: megabytes (10^6 - 1,000,000 bytes)
+## GB: gigabytes (10^9 - 1,000,000,000 bytes)