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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-05 12:08:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-05 12:08:18 +0000 |
| commit | 5da14042f70711ea5cf66e034699730335462f66 (patch) | |
| tree | 0f6354ccac934ed87a2d555f45be4c831cf92f4a /src/libnetdata/storage_number/README.md | |
| parent | Releasing debian version 1.44.3-2. (diff) | |
| download | netdata-5da14042f70711ea5cf66e034699730335462f66.tar.xz netdata-5da14042f70711ea5cf66e034699730335462f66.zip | |
Merging upstream version 1.45.3+dfsg.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/src/libnetdata/storage_number/README.md b/src/libnetdata/storage_number/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f0096fb9b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/libnetdata/storage_number/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +<!-- +title: "Netdata storage number" +custom_edit_url: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/src/libnetdata/storage_number/README.md +sidebar_label: "Storage number" +learn_status: "Published" +learn_topic_type: "Tasks" +learn_rel_path: "Developers/libnetdata" +--> + +# 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. + + |