From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Oct 20 03:31:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA14286 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 03:31:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from axl.iafrica.com (axl.iafrica.com [196.31.1.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA14281 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 03:31:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.iafrica.com) Received: from axl.iafrica.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axl.iafrica.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA25288; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:29:26 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.iafrica.com) From: Sheldon Hearn To: Bill Fenner cc: Nate Williams , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8 days until 2.2.5... Administrative notices. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:58:40 PDT." <97Oct16.215848pdt.177487@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:29:26 +0200 Message-ID: <25284.877343366@axl.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.