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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-06 01:22:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-06 01:22:31 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 1.12.0.upstream/1.12.0upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/libnetdata/storage_number/README.md b/libnetdata/storage_number/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5c2c0b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/libnetdata/storage_number/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# netdata storage number + +Although `netdata` does all its calculations using `long double`, it stores all values using +a **custom-made 32-bit number**. + +This custom-made number can store in 29 bits values from `-167772150000000.0` to `167772150000000.0` +with a precision of 0.00001 (yes, it's a floating point number, meaning that higher integer values +have less decimal precision) and 3 bits for flags. + +This provides an extremely optimized memory footprint with just 0.0001% max accuracy loss. + +[]() |