Re: lynx-dev when, where, why "kb/sec"?

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> 
> Bela Lubkin said: 
>  
> >I like the counter, but I wish it was expressed in bytes, not Kbytes.  I 
> >would much rather see: 
> > 
> >  Read 36352 of 87401 bytes of data, 18176 bytes/sec. 
>  
> I seem to recall listening in on a conversation several months ago (maybe  
> on a FreeBSD list, regarding an ftp client?) wherein a continuously  
> updated display of total bytes transferred was causing a problem. 
>  
> The gist of the discussion was that the display system couldn't keep up  
> with the screen updates -- the byte count was changing too fast. I think  
> the problem was traced to a buffer (in curses?)...  I'm pretty sure that  
> the solution was to not to use total bytes transferred as the unit to  
> display. 
We (I & LP) already addressed this by keeping the rate of display down to
once per second (I didn't look closely at Bela's patch yet).

> Greg Barniskis                   address@hidden 

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