From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Oct 15 07:21:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA17775 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 07:21:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA17714; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 07:20:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA17656; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 10:16:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 10:16:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199710151416.KAA17656@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Donald Burr Cc: Kristian Kennaway , ports-jp@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, jraynard@jraynard.demon.co.uk, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, (Andreas Klemm) Subject: Re: 8 days until 2.2.5... Administrative notices. In-Reply-To: References: <9710150749.AA14643@bragg> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > Getting foo.tar.gz (380k/1522k), 25% done, 3.6 K/sec, 0:18 remaining... > The k/sec figure would be useful to make sure you're getting the most ouf > or your modem (or to brag about your high speed internet connection), and > the time remaining is would be very useful for deciiding whether you want > to sit there and wait for the port to download, or if you want to abort > it). Except that the way TCP works, they are both totally bogus, particularly in the presence of even a small packet loss rate. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick