From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 16 21:05:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA17013 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:05:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA16994 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA15300; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:02:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA18900; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:02:06 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:02:06 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199710170402.WAA18900@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bill Fenner Cc: Nate Williams , Garrett Wollman , Donald Burr , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8 days until 2.2.5... Administrative notices. In-Reply-To: <97Oct16.150242pdt.177487@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> References: <199710151603.KAA11877@rocky.mt.sri.com> <97Oct16.150242pdt.177487@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Ok, I just modified fetch to keep a moving average of throughput over > the last 25 seconds Can't you have it print the average throughput since it began, and therefore the time-remaining since it began based on it's throughput so far, rather than averaging it 25 second chunks? That's what most browsers do, and it works 'fairly' accurately (much more accurately than the results you got it appears.) Nate