Re: progress and eta feature request

[Ole Tange]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Remik Ziemlinski
<remik.ziemlinski@gmail.com> wrote:
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> When I use the current progress indicator, it only shows how many tasks
> completed, and the percentage always shows 100%.  Instead, I wish the
> percentage reported the ratio of complete vs. incomplete tasks.

I do not think that ratio would be very good: For 1000 jobs it would
start out as 0/1000 and end with 1000/0.

I think a better measure is: incomplete vs. all or complete vs. all.

> I also wish
> it showed an estimated time remaining for all the tasks to finish; the
> average time per task is a nice start already.

For estimated time look at --eta.

The 100% is the % of started jobs that are started on this computer.
It changes if you use remote computers (-S).

Currently --progress does not require GNU Parallel to read all
arguments and I would like it to continue to be this way. However,
--eta already requires reading all arguments, so it could be part of
that. An ETA line looks like this:

ETA: 4490s 99291left 0.02avg  local:2/9909/100%/0.1s

We could change it to:

ETA: 4490s 99291=90%left 0.02avg  local:2/9909/100%/0.1s

Do have a better suggestion?


/Ole