Bug 134535 - progress dialogue mathematics horrible
Summary: progress dialogue mathematics horrible
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: kio
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Faure
URL:
Keywords:
: 135541 160375 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2006-09-23 15:56 UTC by Damir Perisa
Modified: 2018-05-08 17:08 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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progress dialogue showing no speed and strange estimated time of transfer (47.26 KB, image/jpeg)
2006-09-23 15:57 UTC, Damir Perisa
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progress dialogue from above - about 2 minutes later (47.62 KB, image/jpeg)
2006-09-23 15:58 UTC, Damir Perisa
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Description Damir Perisa 2006-09-23 15:56:05 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.4)
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package
Compiler:          gcc 
OS:                Linux

the progress dialogue works fine for downloads and uploads as well as single files. the computation of speed and estimated time makes sense.

however, when i copy a bigger amount of data across (firewire storage) harddrives, the progress dialogue has the speed of transfer as well as the estimated time completely wrong. illustrationary attachement screenshots follow

i know this "wrong" behaviour from windows explorer and mac finder as well, when transfering bigger amounts of data... but aren't we (kde) better than they are? there should be a better way to predict the estimated time as well as better way to average the current speed of reads+writes from sources to destination filesystems. maybe it would help to increase the averaging window when the progress dialogue sees a bigger amount of items to be processed (instead of averaging for one item, it may wait for 10 items (or even better: to change the averaging/computing window on-the-run) to be transfered, then take this time and average it over the whole process - as i understand it, now it happens on an per-item-basis and if an item is 3mb and the speed is 20mb/s then it fails giving any meaningfull speed and time)
Comment 1 Damir Perisa 2006-09-23 15:57:05 UTC
Created attachment 17886 [details]
progress dialogue showing no speed and strange estimated time of transfer
Comment 2 Damir Perisa 2006-09-23 15:58:30 UTC
Created attachment 17887 [details]
progress dialogue from above - about 2 minutes later
Comment 3 FiNeX 2008-06-01 18:45:21 UTC
Confirmed, it happens to me too using KDE 3.5.9 and KDE 4 (trunk).

Changed product to kio.
Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2011-08-10 14:41:05 UTC
*** Bug 135541 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Christoph Feck 2013-01-12 16:20:13 UTC
*** Bug 160375 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 clickwir631 2015-03-17 18:50:24 UTC
Still happening after all these years. I'm running Kubuntu 14.10 with KDE 4.14.1.
Comment 7 Nate Graham 2018-05-08 17:08:34 UTC
No longer applicable to KDE Plasma 5.