# How kubernetes calculate the acutal capacity of describe nodes?

**URL:** <https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/how-kubernetes-calculate-the-acutal-capacity-of-describe-nodes/8465>\
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**Created:** [October 25, 2019, 6:17am UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/how-kubernetes-calculate-the-acutal-capacity-of-describe-nodes/8465 "2019-10-25T06:17:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 6:17am UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/how-kubernetes-calculate-the-acutal-capacity-of-describe-nodes/8465/1 "2019-10-25T06:17:32Z")

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When I run the **kubectl describe nodes** command  
it shows me the output like

```
Capacity:
 cpu: 2
 ephemeral-storage: 102350Mi
 hugepages-2Mi: 0
 memory: 4266368Ki
 pods: 110

```

Some times it shows the storage and memory information in **Ki** and sometime in **Mi**  
I want to know at what threshold value it will convert Ki to Mi and Gi automatically

I would be pleased if you share me the actual code of unit conversion on Github