On 30/11/2023 19:07, Taylor Blau wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 06:11:57PM +0000, Jonny Grant wrote: >> Hello >> >> May I suggest taking off the .00 KiB/s suffix, has that been >> considered? As the decimal places don't appear to change, they're >> stuck on .00. > > I wonder if you have a throttled connection that is locked to 52KiB/s > exactly. You're right - I changed to https and it went to 6 MiB/s. Seems throttled on git:// I should have checked that first. > The progress code that generates the throughput is in > progress.c::display_throughput(), which computes the rate. It's computed > in bytes/misec, and then passed to throughput_string() (really, > `strbuf_humanise_rate()`), which formats it appropriately. > > If you're in the KiB range, it will print the decimal component, which > is: > > ((bytes & ((1<<10)-1)) * 100) >> 10 > >> $ git clone git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git git_1 >> Cloning into 'git_1'... >> remote: Enumerating objects: 2949348, done. >> remote: Counting objects: 100% (209238/209238), done. >> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (14579/14579), done. >> Receiving objects: 7% (210878/2949348), 76.33 MiB | 52.00 KiB/s > > On my machine: > > $ git.compile clone git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git > [...] > Receiving objects: 11% (342176/2949348), 108.09 MiB | 24.01 MiB/s > > I suppose we could consider dropping the decimal component if it's a > round number, but I think that it may produce awkward flickering if the > rate oscillates between a round number and a non-round number. Now I can see the advantage of it as it is. wget is similar. Kind regards, Jonny