Re: Bug#80937: apt-get doesn't calculate ETA per-server
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> On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Daniel Stone wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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.
sure, but I didn't realise how slow spidermonkey was and made arrangements
to be picked up in 15 minutes. suckage.
if it was multi-server, it would've said (2.5h + 4min) at the time.
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