hugetop: print human readable sizes by default
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Assessment
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- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Newbie friendliness
- 72/100
Research direction
Start at the hugetop command entry point and run cargo run -q hugetop to inspect the current size formatting. Update the default output to use human-readable units like 2.0Mi and 1.0Gi, then rerun the command to verify the displayed sizes match the requested format.
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Description
Original size format
$ cargo run -q hugetop
hugetop - Thu Apr 30 16:34:42 2026
node(s): 2048kB - 0/0, 1048576kB - 0/0
Consistent with the hugetop command of procps-ng, change the default size to a format suitable for human reading
$ cargo run -q hugetop
hugetop - Thu Apr 30 16:34:42 2026
node(s): 2.0Mi - 0/0, 1.0Gi - 0/0
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