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Message #61056
[Bug 366235] Re: system monitor uses incorrect network speed (throughput) units
@jbicha: If the file downloads are measured in *byte/s, than that should
be changed to bit-based, just like this bug to be consistent. The Ubuntu
units policy [1] clearly states that base-10 (kB, MB, etc.) should be
used to measure network bandwidth, which seems to be the case for
download speeds, upload speeds etc. So consistency should be a goal,
either by using base-2 everywhere and changing the Units policy, or by
fixing the apps showing download/upload to display in base-10.
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366235
Title:
system monitor uses incorrect network speed (throughput) units
Status in The GNOME System Monitor:
Fix Released
Status in “gnome-system-monitor” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Bug description:
Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor
Network monitor uses incorrect units for showing network throughput.
It uses MiB/sec, KiB/sec and so on.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
Examples and comparisons with SI prefixes
one kibibit 1 Kibit = 2^10 bit = 1024 bit
one kilobit 1 kbit = 10^3 bit = 1000 bit
one mebibyte 1 MiB = 2^20 B = 1 048 576 B
one megabyte 1 MB = 10^6 B = 1 000 000 B
one gibibyte 1 GiB = 2^30 B = 1 073 741 824 B
one gigabyte 1 GB = 10^9 B = 1 000 000 000 B
Specifying network throughput in some units of bytes/sec is incorrect.
The network throughput should always specified in some units of
bits/sec (kbits,mbits per second). The speed of downloading a file may
be specified in KiB/sec. is's OK, but not for netowrk device
throughput. Please fix. At least add option into preferences...
mmarkk@mmarkk-ubuntu:~$ LANG=C lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor
Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686
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