Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 10:16:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> Cc: Kristian Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, ports-jp@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, jraynard@jraynard.demon.co.uk, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, (Andreas Klemm) <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Subject: Re: 8 days until 2.2.5... Administrative notices. Message-ID: <199710151416.KAA17656@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.971015020727.dburr@POBoxes.com> References: <9710150749.AA14643@bragg> <XFMail.971015020727.dburr@POBoxes.com>
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<<On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 01:58:44 -0700 (PDT), Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> 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
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