Comment 4 for bug 366235

This is not dulicate bug about 'uses unusual units to report memory
and disk sizes'

I saw already bug #80780. There is no any words about network
throughput. Only about sizes of memory and hard drives. Please remove
duplicate bug. Please don't mix them.

My bug said, that speed should be measured in units of bits per secnd,
and not in bytes/per second.
Bug #80780 said about 1000-based units and 1024-based units.

2009/4/25 Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 80780 ***
>    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80780
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 80780
>   uses unusual units to report memory and disk sizes
>
> --
> system monitor uses incorrect network speed units
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366235
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>
> Status in “gnome-system-monitor” source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> 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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