Subject: Re: bug#34345:

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2019 13:33:43 -0700

On 2019-02-09 1:18 p.m., Ricky Tigg wrote:
> Covered object by values '1994 s', '2014.25 s' seems to be a unique
> time elapsed. Those values can therefore be expected to be identical,
> either '1994 s' or '2014.25 s' – 2014 s and 25 hundredths of s –.
> 

The command was:

> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc status=progress > 8003555840 bytes (8.0 GB, 7.5 GiB) copied, 1994 s, 4.0 MB/s> dd: 
writing to '/dev/sdc': No space left on device> 15638481+0 records in> 
15638480+0 records out> 8006901760 bytes (8.0 GB, 7.5 GiB) copied, 
2014.25 s, 4.0 MB/s
The first status report (with 1994s) is printed due to "status=progress"
and is updated periodically.
The last status line (with 2014.25s) was printed about 20 seconds later,
hence the time difference.