Re: Bug#80937: apt-get doesn't calculate ETA per-server
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 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.
Sure, but 4 mins into that 2.5h the ETA switched to be 2.5h. The ETA is
instantaneous, not averaging, specifically because of this effect.
Jason
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