Automatic units in stats for slow throughputs

[bvolkmer]

I mainly use the meter for long-running processes, where also the increments take several minutes. So the unit of 1/s in the throughput is always 0.0, which does not say much.

It would be nice if it would adjust the unit accordingly. Starting with 1/s, if it is <1 it would be 1/m, then 1/h. Or add an option to set the unit manually. This probably could then also be used for the speed of the spinners (which is always very low for <1/s throughput).

[rsalmei]

Humm, I see, I'd never seen an increment take several minutes... But it makes total sense, I just happen to have another open-source project that does just that! https://github.com/rsalmei/about-time... Look for Accuracy, second collapsible handler, for all the throughput units I support in there.

Well, I think it would increase the overhead a little, I'm going to think about either making it optional or making it update less times. Oh, and trying to measure the possible performance hit, before optimizing anything...

I'm in the process of releasing 2.0 (#51), but after that I can make this 👍

[oschwengers]

Hi and thanks for the great library! I'm quite late to this, but could it also be possible to manually define a dimension for 1/s as for instance kb which would then print kb /s? That would be awesome for instance for up-/download progresses.

[rsalmei]

Hey @oschwengers, thank you! Yes, this is planned! Look at #43 👍

[rsalmei]

It's done! This will be included in the next release.