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| author | Josh Soref <2119212+jsoref@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-07-25 18:49:07 -0400 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2021-07-26 16:03:27 +0200 |
| commit | b045a7d77c715f16eb3a614adefa9b772c1c75a8 (patch) | |
| tree | c4179bea65e4ad1d83354f8caa15d48db3678046 /docs/cmdline-opts/limit-rate.d | |
| parent | 4b79c4fb565ab521eb943034918d92dd7fa7db75 (diff) | |
| download | curl-b045a7d77c715f16eb3a614adefa9b772c1c75a8.tar.gz | |
limit-rate.d: clarify base unit
Fixes #7439
Closes #7494
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/cmdline-opts/limit-rate.d')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/cmdline-opts/limit-rate.d | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/limit-rate.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/limit-rate.d index cb3a86077..66f5cdaac 100644 --- a/docs/cmdline-opts/limit-rate.d +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/limit-rate.d @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ otherwise would be. The given speed is measured in bytes/second, unless a suffix is appended. Appending 'k' or 'K' will count the number as kilobytes, 'm' or 'M' makes it -megabytes, while 'g' or 'G' makes it gigabytes. Examples: 200K, 3m and 1G. +megabytes, while 'g' or 'G' makes it gigabytes. The suffixes (k, M, G, T, P) +are 1024 based. For example 1k is 1024. Examples: 200K, 3m and 1G. If you also use the --speed-limit option, that option will take precedence and might cripple the rate-limiting slightly, to help keeping the speed-limit |