[Nagiosplug-devel] [ nagiosplug-Bugs-3560978 ] document the base of binary units and support/use SI bases

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Bugs item #3560978, was opened at 2012-08-23 04:50
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Cálestyo (calestyo)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: document the base of binary units and support/use SI bases

Initial Comment:
Hi.

Currently the base of binary units in most (all?) plugins, e.g. check_disk which use them seems to be 1024.

This is though usually not documented, which makes the whole thing ambigous.

Please support SI units and use the correct units:

First that means that things like kB, MB or --megabytes of e.g. check_disk should no longer use the incorrect basis 1024.
k is always 1000, etc. pp.

The IEC standardised the use of e.g. KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB as units with the basis 1024.


Cheers,
Chris.

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