On 17/1/21 5:34 am, Andrew Gregory wrote: > On 01/16/21 at 04:32pm, morganamilo wrote: >> Sometimes when downloading packages the transfer rate drops in to the >> negative. Not only is this incorrect, but it messes with the allignment >> of the progress bars. So lets make sure it's always >= 0. >> >> --- >> >> This may not be the best fix as it does not address the root issue. >> But I have no idea what the root issue is so it's on somebody else to >> fix that. > > -1. The issue is that when alpm falls over to a new mirror the > download counter restarts. pacman goes from seeing X bytes downloaded > to 0 and thinks -X bytes were just downloaded. I'm not sure how alpm > should be presenting that event to frontends, but I would say clamping > to 0 is just masking problems. >
Is this a recent regression with the parallel downloads? This has been fixed in the past - see commit e83e868a77865d42a33076605f9a90a165f7c93a A
