Control: fixed -1 1.2.0-1 Hi,
You may like to know this is now a feature in pv 1.2.0.
Sorry for the (very) delayed response - I actually had a confirmation of
this from upstream in 2014 but forgot to document it here.
A.
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:40:33AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> Package: pv
> Version: 1.1.4-1
> Severity: wishlist
> File: /usr/bin/pv
>
> It appears that pv always averages the transfer rate over the display
> interval. It'd be nice if that could be controlled seperately. Right
> now, if you have very bursty data (for example, lzcat receiving
> compressed data from the network, writing uncompressed to disk), you
> have to use a very long update interval, on the order of a minute, to
> get a reasonable rate estimate. It'd be nice to keep the 1s update
> interval, but take the average over a longer period.
>
> It'd be awesome if pv recognized bursty data and adjusted the averaging
> itself, but that's way more than I expect.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages pv depends on:
> ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
>
> pv recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages pv suggests:
> ii doc-base 0.8.16 utilities to manage online
> documen
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
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