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  • Committer: Vincent Ladeuil
  • Date: 2010-02-04 10:01:41 UTC
  • mto: (5004.1.1 integration)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 5006.
  • Revision ID: v.ladeuil+lp@free.fr-20100204100141-aviyyic1im5neuu7
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finish the progress task when it exits, because it may otherwise be a long
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time until the finally block runs.
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy provides a good explanation about
 
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which unit should be used when. Roughly speaking, IEC standard applies
 
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for base-2 units and SI standard applies for base-10 units::
 
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 * for network bandwidth an disk sizes, use base-10 (Mbits/s, kB/s, GB),
 
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 * for RAM sizes, use base-2 (GiB, TiB).
 
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