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@@ -656,10 +656,12 @@ Memory sizes in
 .B htop
 are displayed in a human-readable form.
 Sizes are printed in powers of 1024. (e.g., 1023M = 1072693248 Bytes)
+If no suffix is shown the units are implicitly KiB.
 .LP
 The decision to use this convention was made in order to conserve screen
 space and make memory size representations consistent throughout
-.BR htop .
+.BR htop
+as allocations are granular to full memory pages, typically 4KiB.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR proc (5),
 .BR top (1),