[tor-relays] Proper bandwidth units [was: Exit nodes on Gandi]
Gordon Morehouse
gordon at morehouse.me
Fri Nov 22 17:15:54 UTC 2013
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krishna e bera:
> On 13-11-18 07:28 PM, grarpamp wrote:
>> A proper IEC gibibyte = GiB = 2^30 = 1024^3 = 1073741824 for data
>> storage, ram (binary bit handling) A proper SI gigabyte = GB =
>> 1E9 = 1000^3 = 1000000000 for data transmission (packet counting,
>> rocketships)
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_80000
>> http://www.swedeteam.com/kibi/
>>
>> Thugh they may break your broken tradition, there are current
>> standards now, please use them.
>
> The tradition may be broken but it has roots, just as feet and
> inches and acres came from real human practices. Some of us "grew
> up with" that stuff and it is going to be a pain to unlearn, for
> example, that a KB is 1024 bytes. Indeed this is the first i heard
> that anyone changed the definitions.
>
> Anyway, as long as Tor docs are clear what definitions are being
> used i think we can all get along fine. Suggest we add reference
> URLs to Tor docs.
Why not just accept KB/sec, KiB/sec, GB/mo, GiB/mo in the config file?
Best,
- -Gordon M.
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