1 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7
index 36994b1f1a..415c7690d5 100644
--- a/man7/tcp.7
+++ b/man7/tcp.7
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ extensions.
 These include Protection Against Wrapped
 Sequence Numbers (PAWS), Window Scaling and Timestamps.
 Window scaling allows the use
-of large (> 64K) TCP windows in order to support links with high
+of large (> 64\ kB) TCP windows in order to support links with high
 latency or bandwidth.
 To make use of them, the send and receive buffer sizes must be increased.
 They can be set globally with the
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ the orphaned connection is reset and a warning is printed.
 This limit exists only to prevent simple denial-of-service attacks.
 Lowering this limit is not recommended.
 Network conditions might require you to increase the number of
-orphans allowed, but note that each orphan can eat up to ~64K
+orphans allowed, but note that each orphan can eat up to ~64\ kB
 of unswappable memory.
 The default initial value is set equal to the kernel parameter NR_FILE.
 This initial default is adjusted depending on the memory in the system.
@@ -589,8 +589,8 @@ If this number is exceeded, the kernel will begin
 dropping requests.
 The default value of 256 is increased to
 1024 when the memory present in the system is adequate or
-greater (>= 128Mb), and reduced to 128 for those systems with
-very low memory (<= 32Mb).
+greater (>= 128\ MB), and reduced to 128 for those systems with
+very low memory (<= 32\ MB).
 .IP
 Prior to Linux 2.6.20,
 .\" commit 72a3effaf633bcae9034b7e176bdbd78d64a71db
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ of these values, depending on memory available in the system.
 .I min
 minimum size of the receive buffer used by each TCP socket.
 The default value is the system page size.
-(On Linux 2.4, the default value is 4K, lowered to
+(On Linux 2.4, the default value is 4\ kB, lowered to
 .B PAGE_SIZE
 bytes in low-memory systems.)
 This value
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ This is not used to limit the size of the receive buffer declared using
 on a socket.
 The default value is calculated using the formula
 .IP
-    max(87380, min(4MB, \fItcp_mem\fP[1]*PAGE_SIZE/128))
+    max(87380, min(4\ MB, \fItcp_mem\fP[1]*PAGE_SIZE/128))
 .IP
 (On Linux 2.4, the default is 87380*2 bytes,
 lowered to 87380 in low-memory systems).
@@ -912,9 +912,9 @@ TCP Reno in wired networks and throughput over wireless links.
 .\" Since 2.1.36
 Enable RFC\ 1323 TCP window scaling.
 This feature allows the use of a large window
-(> 64K) on a TCP connection, should the other end support it.
+(> 64\ kB) on a TCP connection, should the other end support it.
 Normally, the 16 bit window length field in the TCP header
-limits the window size to less than 64K bytes.
+limits the window size to less than 64\ kB.
 If larger windows are desired, applications can increase the size of
 their socket buffers and the window scaling option will be employed.
 If
@@ -934,7 +934,7 @@ depending on memory available.
 .I min
 Minimum size of the send buffer used by each TCP socket.
 The default value is the system page size.
-(On Linux 2.4, the default value is 4K bytes.)
+(On Linux 2.4, the default value is 4\ kB.)
 This value is used to ensure that in memory pressure mode,
 allocations below this size will still succeed.
 This is not used to bound the size of the send buffer declared using
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ This value overwrites the initial default buffer size from
 the generic global
 .I /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_default
 defined for all protocols.
-The default value is 16K bytes.
+The default value is 16\ kB.
 .\" True in Linux 2.4 and 2.6
 If larger send buffer sizes are desired, this value
 should be increased (to affect all sockets).
@@ -964,10 +964,10 @@ This is not used to limit the size of the send buffer declared using
 on a socket.
 The default value is calculated using the formula
 .IP
-    max(65536, min(4MB, \fItcp_mem\fP[1]*PAGE_SIZE/128))
+    max(65536, min(4\ MB, \fItcp_mem\fP[1]*PAGE_SIZE/128))
 .IP
-(On Linux 2.4, the default value is 128K bytes,
-lowered 64K depending on low-memory systems.)
+(On Linux 2.4, the default value is 128\ kB,
+lowered 64\ kB depending on low-memory systems.)
 .RE
 .TP
 .IR tcp_workaround_signed_windows " (Boolean; default: disabled; since Linux 2.6.26)"