Bug 1264124

Summary:	RFE: Provide easier count scaling strings
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Marko Myllynen <myllynen>
Component:	pcp	Assignee:	Nathan Scott <nathans>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	22	CC:	brolley, fche, lberk, mgoodwin, nathans, pcp, scox
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Description Marko Myllynen 2015-09-17 14:33:32 UTC

Description of problem:
Currently, for scaling something like "Kbyte" and "GB" are accepted with space-dimension metrics and something like "millisec" and "sec" are accepted with time-dimension metrics. However, with count-dimension the only accepted form is whitespace-sensitive "count x 10" / "count x 10^N". This is needlessly cumbersome, something like "k" or "M" would be much easier to write and for some even easier to read.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.10.7

Comment 1 Marko Myllynen 2015-09-17 14:51:16 UTC

Few concrete examples which might be worthwhile additions for pmParseUnitsStr to accept:

count x 10   : x10 (and perhaps da)
count x 10^2 : x100 (and perhaps h)
count x 10^3 : x1000 and k
count x 10^6 : x1000000 and M

And so on for G/T/E as already possible with space-dimension.

Somewhat related, not sure how to deal with "count / 100" and such, currently it doesn't seem to do anything although it is accepted.

Thanks.

Comment 2 Marko Myllynen 2015-09-17 15:08:24 UTC

(In reply to Marko Myllynen from comment #1)
> 
> Somewhat related, not sure how to deal with "count / 100" and such,
> currently it doesn't seem to do anything although it is accepted.

Actually, nevermind, it works as expected. But here the corresponding forms like "/100" might make sense, not sure about "m" (as opposed to "M") etc.

Comment 3 Marko Myllynen 2015-11-23 13:27:10 UTC

FWIW, as this will be exposed to users via pmrep(1) perhaps at least the space-sentivity would be worth fixing.

Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 17:55:17 UTC

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