System Load Indicator

Binary prefixes for memory, swap

Asked by Abhishek

Gnome system monitor shows both memory/swap and network bandwidth with binary prefixes. There should be an option for this in the applet as well.

While for network bandwidth decimal prefixes are fine but for memory/swap the default should be binary prefixes.

Can this be supported in the applet?

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Best Michael Hofmann (mh21) said : 		#1

Hi Abhishek,

yes this could be supported.

I don't have time to work on this, but the implementation should be straightforward. The applet uses the size() function defined in src/function.vala and src/utils.vala. Since gtk 2.30, g_format_size_for_display has been replaced by g_format_size, which supports both base 2 and base 10. So it should be easily to implement a function size2() that uses base 2.

Cheers
  Michael

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Abhishek (rawcoder) said : 		#2

Thanks for the response!

I'll read the code and try to implement it.

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Abhishek (rawcoder) said : 		#3

Thanks Michael Hofmann, that solved my question.