Re: progress(1) a bit drunk?

["Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton%gmx.net@localhost>]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 02:38:05PM -0400, David Holland wrote:
>  > (...)
>  > To me it seems as if the reference to start-time has been
>  > lost. Instead of the data RATE, all data read until now are
>  > displayed as rate.
> 
> Wading through the code, I don't see any obvious way for this to
> happen. Are your timecounters working properly?

How do I test that? (and I'm usually losing time as I'm on a SMP
system. As nptd used to make the machine thrash at times I'm adjusting
the time regularly with ntpdate. Maybe that's the cause? But ntp
shouldn't cause such things, should it??)

-Martin