Estimating NNN/MMM

[Maritza Mendez]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:50 AM, John Arbash Meinel
<john at arbash-meinel.com>wrote:

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> On 10/19/2010 2:41 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > When bzr 2.2.1 performs an update in a branch bound to a remote
> > repository, most of the time it takes it shows a message like this:
> >
> >  nnnnK mmmK/s  Inserting stream:Estimating NNN/MMM
> >
> > What is it "estimating"? what is the MMM number.  It isn't the number
> > of revisions that is being pulled, because it is much larger than the
> > difference between the previous revno and the new one.
> >
> > I'm asking because if I need to stare at this line for several tens of
> > seconds, I'd prefer to know what it tells me.  You know, the
> > psychological thing... ;-)
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
>
> It is approximating the number of 'records'. So Revisions + Inventories
> + CHK pages + File content.
>
> John
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So when I see something like Estimate M/N where M grows to equal and then
exceed N, sometimes by more than a 2:1 margin, does that mean that the
initial estimate was not especially good?

Thanks
~M
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