Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 62210
Anaconda gets time to completion wrong
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:41:23 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020314 Description of problem: When installing redhat, the time bar is consistently wrong. We install from NFS, and it typically starts off (after a few packages) at half the time it actually takes. The time gradually increases through the installation. This worked for the anaconda that was shipped for RedHat 6.1. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RH from NFS (Skipjack, 7.1, 7.2) 2. Watch time bar 3. Additional info:
The time is only an estimate and is roughly correct once enough packages have been installed to smooth out differnces between large and small package install times.
I think there is still a bug in the time estimation code. The time doesn't settle down after a few packages, but just continually increases. This didn't happen with RedHat 6. I'll have to do some timing tests to be sure.
Similar experience here with FTP install on a laptop ... it consistently starts out with about half the right amount and steadily builds up. It is an issue; you get excited, and then disappointed. If it started off showing a larger value, you think "I'll go make a cup of tea" (or fetch a Molson, if your name's Mike Harris :o) Perhaps something could be done to alleviate this? I remember many versions back a hard-drive install consistently *over*-estimated to begin with.