Forecast: Clouds; notes from DLSLUG 3-Sept-2009

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Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> writes:

> Alan Johnson showed a nifty on the command line pv tool (Progress
> Viewer) which is a classic small-tools-loosely-joined *nix tool: a
> pipe that can display the progress of data through that pipe. Alan

There's another tool that does something like this, called
"pipeworks".  It does an okay job of benchmarking data flow, showing
elapsed time, quantity of data transferred, current data rate, and
average data rate.  But if you use pipeworks, beware: it can be a bit
buggy.  It will display values as "mbps" when it means "MiB/s", has
trouble with NaNs, etc.  It wouldn't be hard to patch, but I don't
expect I'll be doing that anytime soon, since I've already gotten use
to its bugs.