Re: Node gets more FEC blocks than needed

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:03:22 +0100
Florent Daignière (NextGen$) <[email protected]> wrote:

> * bbackde-gM/[email protected] <bbackde-gM/[email protected]> [2007-01-04
> 15:48:09]:
>
> > [...]
> >
> > But the current behavior often leads to downloads that have more
> > than 100% progress *g*
>
> Is it *that* important to have an accurate progress bar ? some blocks
> can take *ages* to be retrived whereas some will come up
> instantaneously... Imho we can't provide a reliable
> percentage/ETA/whatever for small files even if we had detailled stats
> on what's going on.

That's probably very true, but I always wonder whether > 100% means
that there is a bug in fproxy / freenet and it will never finish
because it didn't notice that it was finished already or something.
It's probably a bad idea to say that the download is > 100%, from a
user point of view.

That an ETA will not be that reliable is a different topic if you ask me.

> Btw, haven't you ever experienced the same "bug" on the queue toadlet
> on fproxy ?
> [...]

One of my downloads on fproxy's queue page says it's at 101.2%.  I
think that this is this bug?

Regards,
Milan


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