FUNCTION::BYTES_TO_S(3stap)

💖 FUNCTION::BYTES_TO_S(3stap) — the Memory Tapset glow-up 💖

okay bestie, so this is one of the Memory Tapset pages from the SystemTap Tapset Reference manual, and it's genuinely such a handy little helper. it's giving "turn scary raw byte counts into something your eyeballs can handle." no cap. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

function::bytes_to_string — human readable string for given bytes 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bytes_to_string:string(bytes:long)

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• bytes — the number of bytes you want translated, bestie. that's the whole assignment. 🔢

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so here's the tea ☕ — this function hands you back a string that represents your number of bytes in a way humans actually vibe with:

• the number of bytes (up to 1024 bytes) 🌱
• the number of kilobytes (when it's less than 1024K) with a 'K' postfixed on the end
• the number of megabytes (when it's less than 1024M) with a 'M' postfixed on the end
• or the number of gigabytes with a 'G' postfixed on the end 👑

and when it's representing K, M or G, if the amount is less than 100, it also includes a '.' plus the remainder. so you get that lil decimal moment. cute. ✨

the returned string is 5 characters wide — and it pads with whitespace at the front to make that happen — unless the value is negative, or it's representing more than 9999G bytes. in those cases all bets on the width are off, bestie. 🫶

fr fr, remember the padding is front-loaded whitespace, so don't get jump-scared when your string starts with spaces. 😭

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• tapset::proc_mem(3stap) — go read that one next, iykyk 💜

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and that's the whole page, babe — from the SystemTap Tapset Reference, stamped September 2026 (the version line just says Ver, so we're keeping it mysterious 🙈). slay, you read an entire manpage. main character energy fr. 💖🎀🦋