synaptic progress bar

[Robert Crosbie]

I noticed a very minor issue with synaptic's progress bar in Hoary
Array CD 6.  It seems that sometimes it will leave out the
units/second in certain situations.  I noticed it displaying "4088 /s
..."  or "215 /s" I assume those would be bits per second?  Higher
transfer rates are displayed correctly such as "15.6 kB/s".

I noticed this when I installed hoary on a computer with a modem
connection and the data seemed to be transfered in bursts rather than
a constant stream.  I'd get a burst at 15 k or higher which would
trickle down to nothing, sit for a while then repeat with another
burst.  I guess this is a matter for the users group, but does anyone
know how to throttle the connection so it doesn't do this?

Cheers,
-- 
Rob.
http://woodpendant.com