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Bug#274241: aptitude: download progress bar cannot handle variable throu

Subject: Bug#274241: aptitude: download progress bar cannot handle variable throughput
From: Daniel Burrows
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:19:06 -0400
reassign 274241 apt
thanks

On Thursday 30 September 2004 10:41 am, Nikolaus Schulz wrote:
> e.g. when updating the packages list, aptitude displays data throughput
> values like "12B/s", "stalled" etc, and the progress bar doesn't move.
> But the real average throughput usually ranges at least above 40kB/s.
>
> Guessed cause:
> I'm running aptitude as an apt-proxy client, and apt-proxy seems to pass
> the data at very variable rates to the clients. This makes aptitude's
> measurement of net load and progress fail completely.

  aptitude just relys on apt's calculation of download rate, so I'm 
reassigning to apt.  I personally doubt this will be "fixed", though: apt 
displays the current download rate, and so naturally if nothing is being 
downloaded for long periods of time it'll say "stalled".  I consider this a 
feature.

  (maybe this should be reassigned to apt-proxy, actually, since it would 
ideally stream data out to clients as it receives it)

  Daniel

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