Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] SI vs. IEC prefixes
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 12:21:53 -0800
On Dec 2, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Christopher Maynard <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> And for now I just documented the capture
> buffer size as "MiB" since that's the correct units.  I have no problem
> changing the implementation of the capture buffer size to SI units though,
> if anyone thinks it makes more sense to do that.

Most if not all OSes will probably either require or prefer that the capture buffer size be a power of 2, and there's no good reason for it to be a multiple of a power of 10.