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chpstat uses power-of-two based IEC units such as KiB/s (1024 B/s) when
scaling throughput values in human readable reports. A user interpreting
these numbers can easily be confused by chpstat's default column header
("B/s") to assume that numbers are scaled using power-of-ten based SI
units such as kB/s (1000 B/s).
In addition, users that have worked with similar z/OS tooling to display
channel path activity are used to SI-based scaling, which increases the
chance of chpstat reports being misinterpreted.
To reduce this confusion, use SI units for throughput scaling:
Option Old factor New factor
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--scale k 1024 1000
--scale m 1048576 1000000
--scale g 1073741824 1000000000
--scale auto IEC units SI units
Note that machine-readable format produced via option --format is not
affected by scaling.
Reviewed-by: Jimmy Brison <jbrisson@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vineeth Vijayan <vneethv@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>