Memory unit representation in Kubernetes API

General Discussions
1

I am querying the API to get Node information and in the JSON result I see the information about CPU as below
{“capacity”:{
“cpu”:“16”,
“hugepages-1Gi”:“0”,
“hugepages-2Mi”:“0”,
“memory”:“16264412Ki”,
“pods”:“160”
}

What does this “Ki” at the end of the memory mean? Is it KiloBytes?

2

Ki is “kibi”: - 2^10 (as opposed to “kilo”: 10^3).

3

Thanks for the clarification.

4

The “quantity” type for that field can take either bare numbers (1024)
or SI suffixes (1.024K) or binary suffixes (1Ki), and they all mean
the same