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Re: Documentation of the TIMEFMT variable

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Documentation of the TIMEFMT variable
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 11:33:56 -0800
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/workers/51356>
In-reply-to: <e3d93b05-42a2-711a-8b11-bad43646fde3@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 8:54 AM trillian
<just.so.you.can.email.me@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The documentation of TIMEFMT says that %M means "The  maximum memory the
> process had in use at any time in kilobytes", but the actual value shown
> is in megabytes. (The kernel reports it in kilobytes and zsh divides it
> by 1024 again.)

This has been reported twice before, although after looking at the
previous two reports I'm not sure if this is a documentation error or
a coding error or (OS-dependently) both.  Anyone?

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Documentation of the TIMEFMT variable
  - From: Stephane Chazelas

References:
- Documentation of the TIMEFMT variable
  - From: trillian

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