Re: Bug#80937: apt-get doesn't calculate ETA per-server
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> On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Daniel Stone wrote:
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> > When apt-get calculates its ETA when downloading something, if it is
> > downloading from multiple servers, it doesn't do it per server:
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> Yes, but that is probably best. Think about a modem where the bandwidth is
> limited by the incoming pipe, so bandwidth per source is quite wrong, only
> on broadband does it make any difference, and even then not much.
Well, I was doing a full install, and I was sucking at 400k/sec from
mirror.aarnet.edu.au, and about 4k/sec from spidermonkey.helixgnome.com. The
ETA was 4 minutes. The actual time it took from that "4 minutes ETA" was
about 2.5 hours. Think about it.
But anyway, wishlist.
> It is an estimate, accept that it always wrong for some of the time.
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