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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 16:15:37 +0100
commit28fd4874086595af0d4e31486f531388c07490f0 (patch)
treec04b36480b0630ab8f1eec160297b1b41d5d007f /priv/schema
parent9d898823c30ff0e56d97053764b2708a299c46eb (diff)
downloadrabbitmq-server-git-28fd4874086595af0d4e31486f531388c07490f0.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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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/priv/schema/rabbit.schema b/priv/schema/rabbit.schema
index 4ca95cc536..c7171ce74a 100644
--- a/priv/schema/rabbit.schema
+++ b/priv/schema/rabbit.schema
@@ -668,15 +668,18 @@ end}.
%%
%% {vm_memory_high_watermark, {absolute, 1073741824}},
%%
-%% Or you can set absolute value using memory units (with RabbitMQ 3.6.0+).
+%% Or you can set absolute value using memory unit symbols (with RabbitMQ 3.6.0+).
%%
%% {vm_memory_high_watermark, {absolute, "1024M"}},
%%
-%% Supported units suffixes:
+%% Supported unit symbols:
%%
-%% kb, KB: kibibytes (2^10 bytes)
-%% mb, MB: mebibytes (2^20)
-%% gb, GB: gibibytes (2^30)
+%% 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)
{mapping, "vm_memory_high_watermark.relative", "rabbit.vm_memory_high_watermark", [
{datatype, float}]}.