On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 10:10 +0000, Gavin Henry wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear all, > > I have always wondered (setting here waiting for FC3 to install) how the > install time for an RPM is calculated. It involves the square root of the median of the imaginary and real parts of the complex number that is composed of the MAC address and MHz of your cpu. Or maybe it just sees how many megabytes have been done so far and extrapolates based on that (with a fixed added time added to compensate for some fixed overhead) (just as a side note; it's rumored that for OS/2, IBM researchers actually tried to map "feeling" of time as opposed to wallclock time in their install progress estimator, and ended up with a logarithmic scale, in the beginning people are still patient while near the end they loose patentience, so near the end visible progress needs to go faster for the same amount of wallclock progress)
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