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[9.003] Reporting Graphs use units which are difficult to understand

BarryG
Hi,

in 9.003, my memory/swap graph is not rendering the swap usage in a readable manner. It says swap is currently 204m (I don't know what 'm' means), and nothing is shown on the graph.

'free' reports 3MB swap currently: 

loginuser@fw:/home/login > free

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached

Mem:       2073360    1944020     129340          0     377780     488120

-/+ buffers/cache:    1078120     995240

Swap:      1048572       3152    1045420


What does '204m' mean? thousandths of a percent? Couldn't we just display it as 0% or 0.2% instead?

I think this has been brought up before, but probably not recently.

Barry


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    Right.

    I would still argue that SI units on memory and network graphs are not useful, other than the common kilo, Mega, Giga.

    There's no such thing as a millibyte or a millibit, and reporting percentages at thousands of a percent accuracy is pointless and confusing.
    How can current traffic on a NIC be 654millibits/s? (I know it's a 5-minute average, but still.)

    I hope that there is a way to improve this. It's confusing, and I've got PHBs who look at the Executive Reports and I would rather not have to try to explain this.

    Thanks,
    Barry
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    Right.

    I would still argue that SI units on memory and network graphs are not useful, other than the common kilo, Mega, Giga.

    There's no such thing as a millibyte or a millibit, and reporting percentages at thousands of a percent accuracy is pointless and confusing.
    How can current traffic on a NIC be 654millibits/s? (I know it's a 5-minute average, but still.)

    I hope that there is a way to improve this. It's confusing, and I've got PHBs who look at the Executive Reports and I would rather not have to try to explain this.

    Thanks,
    Barry
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