I don't want to make unfair comparisons to the famous bug in Windows Vista[1], but it seems as if when a yum download stalls, then the estimates can start to look a little large: rawhide/primar 20% [- ] 0.0 B/s | 2.5 MB 2046434610655583470384211558:24 ETA # yum --version 3.2.25 Installed: rpm-4.7.1-6.fc12.x86_64 at 2009-11-25 22:30 Built : Fedora Project at 2009-09-21 13:30 Committed: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxx> at 2009-09-21 12:00 Installed: yum-3.2.25-1.fc12.noarch at 2009-11-25 22:42 Built : Fedora Project at 2009-10-16 20:44 Committed: Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> at 2009-10-14 12:00 Rich. [1] http://www.istartedsomething.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/vista47117days.jpg -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list