On 28 Feb, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I'm using apt-get, which seems to be downloading stuff quite nicely, > but there is one thing which I am curious about. > > On the right side of the downloading status line, it says: > > 7h2m21s > > which presumably is the amount of time till it finishes downloading. > It is happily counting down the seconds from this time, till a while > later when it gives the new estimate: > > 7h37m46s > > This new estimate happily counts down the seconds for a while, then it > switches back to the old estimate. It seems to oscillate between > these two estimates. > > Now I have two guesses about why this is: > > 1. One is a lower estimate, the other an upper estimate, and the > display deliberately oscillates between the two. > > 2. This behaviour is a strange quirk of the method used to estimate > time till completion. > > Which one is it? Or is there a third explanation? > > Cheers, > > Mark. > > > > _/~~~~~~~~\___/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ > ____/~~\_____/~~\__/~~\__________________________Mark_Phillips____________ > ____/~~\_____/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ____/~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_____________________________________________ > ____/~~\______/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ > __________________________________________________________________________ > "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!" > > > > I think it does this because it periodicly(sp?) recalculates the time to d/l based upon the current d/l speed. Since the speed will vary, the time may seem to jump back and forth a bit.
HTH, chris
