Description of problem: Option --si doesn't switch from default (kibibytes) to international units (kilobytes) when unit is not specified. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): procps-ng-3.3.17-3.fc35.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. $ free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 297144608 1898016 293631640 23780 1614952 293515612 Swap: 196603896 0 196603896 2. $ free --kibi total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 297144608 1895936 293633688 23780 1614984 293517700 Swap: 196603896 0 196603896 3. $ free --si total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 297144608 1897764 293631892 23780 1614952 293515864 Swap: 196603896 0 196603896 3. $ free --kilo total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 304276078 1942495 300679864 24350 1653719 300561076 Swap: 201322389 0 201322389 Actual results: free --si is the same as free --kibi. Expected results: free --si should be the same as free --kilo.
Hello, yes, this seems to be an intention indeed. https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/blob/master/free.c#L121 `--si` option seems to be only effective with `-h` (human readable) which makes sense and manpage implicitly describes that as such (yes, implicitly). As the default is not `-h` (human readable), but kibibytes, the SI output would be kilobytes, and this can be invoked by `--kilo` option instead of `--si`. Yet, I believe a change can be made either in manpage to clarify this better or in code, shall the upstream maintainers agree with it.
Made a pull request at upstream: https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/merge_requests/163
Fixed in rawhide so far.
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FEDORA-2022-1850eac8a3 has been pushed to the Fedora 37 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.