synaptic progress bar

[Michael Vogt]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:12:28AM -0500, Robert Crosbie wrote:
> 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".
[..]

Thanks, I filed this as bug #7381 and will look into it.

Cheers,
 Michael
 
> 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?

Unfortunately there is no way in apt to limit the speed of the
connection yet. There is a patch that implements it for http at:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=146877
(but it certainly needs testing and will not go into hoary).

Cheers,
 Michael

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