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#1 2019-07-11 14:27:06

schard
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[solved] Pacman speed units

When pacman shows that it downloads with 116 K/s does that mean 116 Kilobytes per second or 116 Kilobits per second?
I could not find any answer on the man page, google or these forums and currently have no way to measure it.

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#2 2019-07-11 15:28:54

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Re: [solved] Pacman speed units

currently have no way to measure it.

How about

pacman -Si gkrellm
pacman -Si iftop

As a general rule K means Kilobyte, k means kilobit

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#3 2019-07-11 15:49:38

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Re: [solved] Pacman speed units

teckk wrote:

As a general rule K means Kilobyte, k means kilobit

Do you have examples of this?  I've only every seen an upper-case K in Kbps.


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#4 2019-07-11 16:19:27

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Re: [solved] Pacman speed units

No I don't @Trilby. Did I misspeak?

Opening a system monitor will quickly answer the OP's question.

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#5 2019-07-11 16:52:48

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Re: [solved] Pacman speed units

When I had a ~3mbps connection pacman would show 300K/s. Do the math wink


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#6 2019-07-11 17:02:12

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Re: [solved] Pacman speed units

ugjka wrote:

When I had a ~3mbps connection pacman would show 300K/s. Do the math wink

That would suggest K stands for Kilobytes.

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#7 2019-07-11 18:03:35

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Re: [solved] Pacman speed units

You can look into callback.c at db_dl_progress (line 655) and util.c for humanize_size (line 1074) to see that it is working in Bytes.


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#8 2019-07-11 18:11:46

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Re: [solved] Pacman speed units

As a general rule K means Kilobyte, k means kilobit

I know that the rule is b=bit, B=byte


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#9 2019-07-12 01:49:13

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Re: [solved] Pacman speed units

> pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 testing                21.8 KiB  7.09 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 core                  133.8 KiB   257 KiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
 extra                1629.5 KiB  1045 KiB/s 00:02 [######################] 100%

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#10 2019-07-12 06:01:31

schard
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Re: [solved] Pacman speed units

Thanks Trilby.
Allan, care to share how you got pacman to echo the units with binary prefixes?
Is it a pacman or a locale setting I'm missing?

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#11 2019-07-12 07:55:41

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Re: [solved] Pacman speed units

schard wrote:

Allan, care to share how you got pacman to echo the units with binary prefixes?
Is it a pacman or a locale setting I'm missing?

It is the latest developmental build.

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#12 2019-07-12 07:57:13

schard
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Re: [solved] Pacman speed units

Awesome. Looking forward to it.

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