diff --git a/evalharness/model/adapter.py b/evalharness/model/adapter.py
index d5d7509..4dea6a4 100644
--- a/evalharness/model/adapter.py
+++ b/evalharness/model/adapter.py
@@ -391,9 +391,14 @@ class OpenAICompatible(ModelAdapter):
         try:
             import httpx
 
+            # read timeout scales with the generation budget: a 32k-token
+            # CoT legitimately takes 10+ minutes; a fixed 300s timeout would
+            # kill and retry it forever (looks like a hang)
+            _rt = max(self.extra.get('timeout', 300),
+                      int(payload.get('max_tokens') or 0) * 0.15)
             async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=httpx.Timeout(
                 connect=self.extra.get('connect_timeout', 15),
-                read=self.extra.get('timeout', 300), write=30, pool=15)) as client:
+                read=_rt, write=30, pool=15)) as client:
                 r = await client.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
                 r.raise_for_status()
                 return r.json()
diff --git a/evalharness/progress/rich_terminal.py b/evalharness/progress/rich_terminal.py
index a7778f0..3da217b 100644
--- a/evalharness/progress/rich_terminal.py
+++ b/evalharness/progress/rich_terminal.py
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ from rich.progress import (
     SpinnerColumn,
     TaskProgressColumn,
     TextColumn,
-    TimeElapsedColumn,
-    TimeRemainingColumn,
 )
 
 
@@ -28,12 +26,10 @@ class RichTerminalProgress:
             BarColumn(complete_style="green", finished_style="bold green"),
             TaskProgressColumn(),
             TextColumn("• Completed {task.completed}/{task.total}"),
-            TextColumn("• in-flight {task.fields[inflight]}"),
+            TextColumn("• in-flight {task.fields[inflight]} ({task.fields[cur]})"),
             TextColumn("• {task.fields[rate]}/s"),
-            TextColumn("•"),
-            TimeElapsedColumn(),
-            TextColumn("•"),
-            TimeRemainingColumn(),
+            TextColumn("• {task.fields[elapsed]}"),
+            TextColumn("• eta {task.fields[eta]}"),
             console=self.console,
             refresh_per_second=4,
         )
@@ -100,7 +96,8 @@ class RichTerminalProgress:
             self.progress.update(self.task_id, description=desc,
                                  total=total, completed=min(completed, total),
                                  success=completed, failed=0, rate='0.00',
-                                 inflight=0, last_result='restored')
+                                 inflight=0, cur='0s', elapsed='0s', eta='-',
+                                 last_result='restored')
 
     def set_bench_tag(self, tag: str):
         """Persistent counter shown on the sample bar, e.g. '[1/6]'."""
@@ -122,7 +119,7 @@ class RichTerminalProgress:
             return
         self.inflight += 1
         self.current_started = time.monotonic()
-        self.progress.update(self.task_id, inflight=self.inflight,
+        self.progress.update(self.task_id, inflight=self.inflight, cur='0s',
                              waiting="00:00", last_result=f"waiting {label}")
 
     def rollback(self):
@@ -130,7 +127,7 @@ class RichTerminalProgress:
         just decrement the in-flight count, no success/fail bookkeeping."""
         self.inflight = max(0, self.inflight - 1)
         if self.task_id is not None:
-            self.progress.update(self.task_id, inflight=self.inflight)
+            self.progress.update(self.task_id, inflight=self.inflight, cur='0s')
 
     def advance(self, success: bool = True):
         if self.task_id is None:
@@ -147,16 +144,25 @@ class RichTerminalProgress:
             success=ok,
             failed=failed,
             rate=f"{completed / elapsed:.2f}",
-            inflight=self.inflight,
+            inflight=self.inflight, cur='0s',
+            elapsed=_fmt(elapsed),
+            eta=_fmt((task.total - completed) * elapsed / completed)
+                 if completed and task.total and task.total > completed else '-',
             waiting="00:00",
             last_result="success" if success else "failed",
         )
 
     async def _heartbeat(self):
         while self.task_id is not None:
-            if self.task_id is not None and self.inflight:
-                waiting = int(time.monotonic() - self.current_started)
-                self.progress.update(self.task_id, waiting=f"{waiting // 60:02d}:{waiting % 60:02d}")
+            if self.task_id is not None:
+                e = time.monotonic() - self.started
+                upd = {'elapsed': f'{int(e) // 60}m{int(e) % 60:02d}s' if e >= 60
+                       else f'{int(e)}s'}
+                if self.inflight:
+                    secs = int(time.monotonic() - self.current_started)
+                    upd['cur'] = (f'{secs // 60}m{secs % 60:02d}s'
+                                  if secs >= 60 else f'{secs}s')
+                self.progress.update(self.task_id, **upd)
             await asyncio.sleep(1)
 
     def log(self, message: str):