[bug#39734] [PATCH] scripts: Emit GC hint if free space is lower than absolute and relative threshold.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:

> Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

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>>>   1GiB;10%
>>>   15            ;15% relative, and default absolute
>>>   15%           ;same
>>>   1G            ;1G absolute, and default relative
>
> Something else: in your example it's not logically possible to make out
> if a raw number is relative or absolute.
> So I suggest to break backward compatibility and do this:
>
>    1GiB;10%
>    15            ;15 absolute (15 bytes), and default relative
>    15%           ;15% relative, and default absolute
>    1G            ;1G absolute, and default relative
>
> Thoughts?

What about having the rule that a number below 100 is a percentage, as
discussed before?  (It doesn’t make much sense to have an absolute
threshold of 42 bytes.)

Ludo’.