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Re: 8.4.5 linux: scp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Mon Jul 3 12:10:57 2000
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:50:18 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 12:10:51 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> > When scp'ing a large file (240 Mb) over the ET T1 from whack-a-mole
> > (IRIX 8.4.5) to No-Whammies (Linux 8.4.5 layered) using
> > /usr/athena/bin/scp, the percent complete indicator occasionally
> > resets to zero. (Frustratingly, this *only* happened when I wasn't
> > looking at the screen.) The download finished with the indicator
> > showing 12%.
>
> It might make sense for a progress indicator to go backwards if your
> download rate goes down. But resetting all the way to zero and
> finishing at 12% definitely sounds wrong. Hopefully we will find time
> to look into this problem.
I think I see the problem. It's calculating percent by doing
100 * bytes_written / file_size, using integer arithmetic. So it
will reset to 0 at around the 40 MB point (2 ^ 32 / 100). I'll
work on a patch.
Bob
