host_metrics reports incorrect memory stats (assumes kB instead of kiB)

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Problem

/proc/meminfo is used as a source to report host_metrics' memory stats.

/proc/meminfo values are exposed in kiB (1024) but the prefix used is kB(1000). As can be seen here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/proc/meminfo.c#L66 and here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/proc/meminfo.c#L30-L31

vector relies on heim-rs to gather these metrics which relies on uom to parse values. uom does what would be expected and interprets kB as kilobytes instead of kibibytes. https://github.com/iliekturtles/uom/blob/85b665e8e574ff9b5ab91163f5b95c0e10412b9b/src/si/information.rs#L56

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Version

0.35.0

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