This is particualrly noticeable with MenuDrake (which is not exactly greased lightning to begin with): when you're operating over a slow link, the enormous update rate of the progress bar slows operation to a crawl. Can anything be done about that? I don't see any point at all in updating more often than 4x a second, and 1x a second should be enough.
It's worth adding that this is a disadvantage of MS-WIndows-XP as well; operating over a 128k or slower link with any of the office assistants running can grade from excruciating to impossible because they smash the link flat with constant updates. I strongly recommend remote operation through a slow link as an excellent way to gain insights into how efficient your applications are. It's a painful but well-remembered lesson. You can do this even locally by setting up a clone of the loopback interface, shaping that, and using iproute2 to ensure that traffic to your new device is routed through the shaper. Cheers; Leon
