[mythtv-users] Mythfill and Log entry's...???

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/21/06 22:50, Harry Orenstein wrote:

>On Saturday 21 October 2006 4:50 am, Michael T. Dean wrote:
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>>Yeah, but the point is:  do you even know what the 3 minutes are
>>measuring on your system?  I'd guess what you think it's measuring is
>>different from what it is measuring.  And, since you're losing the other
>>1, 2, 3, ... 10, whatever measurements (since we only store the last)
>>how useful is it, really?  Perhaps the first 3 downloads took 18 minutes
>>each, but you see 3 minutes in the status (the length of the final
>>download), so now you're confident that everything's just peachy?
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>There is only 1 entry in the log for the ratings download for the day in 
>question.  The total time to download all the days was 3 minutes.
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>>IMHO, if the difference between start time and end time were really
>>useful, we should be displaying that, instead.  However, I don't see it
>>being a useful statistic--there are far too many factors that can affect
>>it.  But, if it makes people happy, I'd be happy to not write a patch
>>(and leave it as is).
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>I agree that the times given in the status screen are useless because they 
>don't really show the total elapsed time.  But AFAICT, the times in the log 
>do.  I tried to look at the code for the times in the settings table (used in 
>the status screen) but it was too convoluted to make much sense of (or maybe 
>it was just me).  I think that there is limited information you can infer 
>from the times, but two useful bits would be: if it is very short then the 
>ratings did not get downloaded and if it is very long then the data was not 
>available to be downloaded.  I'd rather have that small amount of information 
>than nothing at all.
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Ratings?  Are we talking about the same thing?

Mike