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Table headers use `GB` instead of `GiB` #41482

Closed eanyanwu closed 5 years ago

eanyanwu commented 5 years ago

The notes at the bottom of the page seem to indicate that the sizes are in GiB. Additionally, the other Virtual Machine pages seem to all use GiB in their headers.

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VikasPullagura-MSFT commented 5 years ago

@eanyanwu Thanks for pointing this out. I have raised a PR for updating the doc, the changes will go live once it is approved.

vermagit commented 5 years ago

Just wanted to point out that though strictly speaking, GiB is what the units actually are (i.e. base 2) as opposed to GB (not base 10), manufacturer specifications elsewhere (AMD, Intel, Mellanox, etc.) may still use conflate the two notations, using GB uniformly. This also applies to the memory bandwidth calculations which are to base 2, not 10, but are still represented typically as GB/s . I'll approve the PR, but putting this out as an FYI.

eanyanwu commented 5 years ago

Did you mean to say "as opposed to GB (base 10)" ?

Thanks for the quick response and for the explanation. This came up for us because there was some confusion over the units to use for memory-related performance counters, so I was looking to the docs for clarification when I noticed the discrepancy. Just wanted to make sure the memory units were indeed in GiB.

VikasPullagura-MSFT commented 5 years ago

@eanyanwu Hope the response from doc author has clarified the confusion on this. I am proceeding to close the issue for now.