diff --git a/evalharness/progress/rich_terminal.py b/evalharness/progress/rich_terminal.py
index cba9b22..05ce268 100644
--- a/evalharness/progress/rich_terminal.py
+++ b/evalharness/progress/rich_terminal.py
@@ -215,7 +215,9 @@ class RichTerminalProgress:
         # 'the gate is not working'
         if self.admitted is None:
             return str(self.inflight)
-        return f'{self.admitted}/{self.inflight}'
+        # 'N gen · M wait': N admitted by the gate (real server load),
+        # M held by the pipeline (tokenizing or gate-queued)
+        return f'{self.admitted} gen · {max(0, self.inflight - self.admitted)} wait'
 
     def set_admitted(self, n: int):
         """Pooled runs: requests actually admitted by the gate."""