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Questions tagged [progress]

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Is there a way to see any tar progress per file?

I have a couple of big files that I would like to compress. I can do this with for example tar cvfj big-files.tar.bz2 folder-with-big-files The problem is that I can't see any progress, so I don't have a clue how long it will take or anything like…
Svish
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Why has the size of L1 cache not increased very much over the last 20 years?

The Intel i486 has 8 KB of L1 cache. The Intel Nehalem has 32 KB L1 instruction cache and 32 KB L1 data cache per core. The amount of L1 cache hasn't increased at nearly the rate the clockrate has increased. Why not?
eleven81
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progress bar for Hibernation in Windows Seven

On XP, during hibernation a progress bar shows me how long I have to wait for completing the operation. On Seven, I see no progress bar and the monitor turn off at once while the OS saves the ram on the disk. Same thing during the wake up process…
Toc
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How does browser know how much page has been loaded?

Looking at the progress bar of browser which sometimes slows down near the end during a web-page loading, I was wondering whether the browser shows progress based on the size of elements present on the page or the no. of elements or something else?…
Atul Goyal
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Video progress bar will not go away in full screen

At the beginning of the summer I started to have a problem with YouTube where the progress bar would not disappear in full screen. I just refreshed the page and it would go away. Now, if I change any video settings, like the quality, it will do the…
Ichimaru Gin
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How to show linux "cmp" command progress?

Is there a way to show the progress when running the cmp command? Comparing large files or partitions using cmp can take a while. I have searched google and used man cmp, but failed to find any useful information. With the 'dd' command for example…
Iljaas
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Linux wget, how to display progress percentage after session has reload?

I am running debian Squeeze in console mode on a plug computer. I control it opening an SSH session from a Windows machine, on the same local network. I started downloading a large file using wget. What I get is a console progress bar showing the…
skyrail
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Tar with progress but without compression

There are a lot of answers on how to create a tar.gz file with progress updates (ie. this answer, copied below) tar cf - /folder-with-big-files -P | pv -s $(du -sb /folder-with-big-files | awk '{print $1}') | gzip > big-files.tar.gz But how do I…
puk
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Progress bar while formatting removable drives is inacruate

Why is the progress bar in windows operating systems not really displaying the progress of the format. It is only displaying when the format is already completed. What I'm trying to say is, you cannot really see that the progress bar is moving…
Wern Ancheta
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Only output header and summary with robocopy.exe

I'm using Robocopy and just want it to output the header and summary, hiding everything else. I've looked at the Robocopy syntax and have tried: /NC /NFL /NS /NDL /NP However I'm still getting this: 11 -…
Conrad Clark
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Is there a reason the partition tool GParted doesn't show a percentage finish number initially?

I am using GParted more, and it seems to do a reliable work. I just wonder why if the tasks is to resize a 250GB partition to 190GB, and then create a new partition, the first 10, 15 minutes, there is only a blue bar moving left and right, but there…
nonopolarity
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"Hacking" progress in Rosetta Stone after progress file was corrupted?

I have a friend who is using Rosetta Stone to learn Korean. Recently she was faced with a 5118 error which resulted in all of her progress being lost. She was on the second to last section, which is a lot of work to get back to, and finishing is…
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How to know when filevault decryption has finished

I have turned off FileVault I want to know when it has been completed, for the moment it has not ended because time machine backup is not possible. I want to add that I have turned off and on my macbook pro after backup has completed I now it is…
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How do I measure or track the progress of a command on a GNU distro?

If I run cp file1 file2 I'd like to be able to track it's progress. Is there a command I can use for this? rsync --progress has this, but is there something generic, usable for "any" command?
Felipe Alvarez
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Progress Bar in Excel 2013

I have a training doc on Excel, with multiple sheets, showing multiple tasks that need to be done. On the home page (worksheet) I would like to show a progress bar showing the amount of tasks complete as a percentage. Is this possible? How can I do…
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