The progress bar that doesn't convey any sense of progress (was Re: ...)

[Martin Pool]

2009/12/2 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>:
> Martin Pool writes:
>
>  > There is some smoothing; perhaps there should be more.  Maybe your
>  > network has very different characteristics.  It is possible that it
>  > actually does transmit 500kb/s for a bit, then pause, in which case it
>  > may be better not to hide that.
>
> I think that's wrong.

'that' meaning that the network really does burst between 500k and 0?  OK.

> I rather doubt that it's possible for me or you
> to do anything about this burstiness, and it doesn't hurt things;
> average intercontinental transfer rates of 200KB/s are nothing to
> sneeze at.  However, if the average transfer rate drops from 200KB/s
> to 50KB/s over a period of 30s, I know the network has gone wonky.

So that suggests a bit more smoothing.

If you want a better idea what's happening underneath, run with -Dhpss
and run 'tail -F ~/.bzr.log' in another window (or use the equivalent
emacs function whose name I forget.)

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>