Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:29:26 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8 days until 2.2.5... Administrative notices. Message-ID: <25284.877343366@axl.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:58:40 PDT." <97Oct16.215848pdt.177487@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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Bill Fenner & Nate Williams thusly discussed rate averaging: > >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? > > It would be less accurate, but perhaps that's what people want. As one of the people, I'd like to suggest offering both rates. Possibly with a command-line toggle option. I know software that gives only an over-all rate irritates the dickens out of me and the only software that's ever been impressive in this regard has shown both over-all rate and "recent-chunk" rate. 2c.me Sheldon.
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