The result of pvc memory usage is not religious

[zhujian7]

Cyclone use du -sh to get memory usage, read the annotation of -h for du command:

-h "Human-readable" output. Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte.

Please pay attention to the unit : Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte. Instead of Kibibyte, Mebibyte, Gibibyte, Tebibyte and Pebibyte.

Unfortunately, we use the following formula to calculate:

var unitMap = map[byte]int64{
    'B': 1,
    'K': 1024,
    'M': 1024 * 1024,
    'G': 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
    'T': 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
}

And It is obviously wrong, since 1 Mebibyte=1000Kibibyte (1M=1000K).

There are two ways to fix it:

• correct the formula from 1 Mebibyte=**1024**Kibibyte to 1 Mebibyte=**1000**Kibibyte
• find a way to get PVC usage with Kibibyte, Mebibyte unit.

Related Reads:

• Quickly convert between storage size units: KB, MB, GB, TB & 512 byte blocks

/kind bug

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[supereagle]

What are the preferred units? Could we convert to these preferred units after 'du -sh'?

[zhujian7]

A piece of output of man du:

...
       Display values are in units of the first available SIZE from --block-size, and the DU_BLOCK_SIZE, BLOCK_SIZE and BLOCKSIZE environment variables.  Otherwise, units default to 1024  bytes  (or
       512 if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set).

       SIZE is an integer and optional unit (example: 10M is 10*1024*1024).  Units are K, M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y (powers of 1024) or KB, MB, ... (powers of 1000).
...

So I rethought the description of the issue is wrong And It is obviously wrong, since 1 Mebibyte=1000Kibibyte (1M=1000K).

The implementation of command du treats 1M=1024K. So I think the only thing we need to do is change the unit from K M G T to Ki Mi Gi Ti to make them more readable. Besides Kubernetes uses Ki Mi Gi Ti instead of K M G T as memory units: Unit of Memory in Kubernetes