Re: lynx-dev Download indicator hogs my bandwidth

[Mike Castle]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:00:33PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> The underlying problem is that the rate is repainted several times a second,
> using a numeric filter to approximate the ETA value.  My original
> implementation of ETA limited refreshes to once per second, but LP's
> alternative was deemed better by the majority of the people on lynx-dev.  That
> was a few years ago.

Right.

But how how can the redrawing of the ETA value can happen fast enough to
slow down the link when it doesn't _appear_ to generate that much data, no
matter how fast it's spinning.

mrc
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