Bug 104594

Summary:	installation progress bar (and guessed remaining time) totally wrong at large packages
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Christian Boltz <suse-beta>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Stefan Hundhammer <shundhammer>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 1
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Christian Boltz 2005-08-14 13:56:34 UTC

I noticed that the progress bar (of package installation) and the guessed 
remaining time are totally wrong when installing large packages like 
kernel-source. 
 
kernel-source was installed within 2 or 3 minutes, but the remaining time 
decreased by about 30 minutes. 
 
I know that guessing the remaining time will never be perfect, but you should 
consider to include the package count and not only the number of bytes into 
your calculation ;-)

Comment 1 Stefan Hundhammer 2005-08-16 10:46:40 UTC

The time estimate is completely bogus anyway, but yet people seem to want it. 
Amazingly enough, it seems to be far less off than anybody who knows how this 
acutally is calculated could think. 
 
You might have encountered a time-recalc at a strange moment: Every 30 seconds 
the projected time is recalculated based on the previous transfer rate. 
 
And no, we will certainly not invest any more time to make bogus time 
projections 5% less bogus...