diff --git a/GPy/util/linalg.py b/GPy/util/linalg.py
index d82bb50f..f88099a4 100644
--- a/GPy/util/linalg.py
+++ b/GPy/util/linalg.py
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ def jitchol(A,maxtries=5):
             raise linalg.LinAlgError, "not pd: negative diagonal elements"
         jitter= diagA.mean()*1e-6
         for i in range(1,maxtries+1):
-            print 'Warning: adding jitter of '+str(jitter)
+            print '\rWarning: adding jitter of {:.10e}                        '.format(jitter),
             try:
                 return linalg.cholesky(A+np.eye(A.shape[0]).T*jitter, lower = True)
             except:
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ def jitchol_old(A,maxtries=5):
             raise linalg.LinAlgError, "not pd: negative diagonal elements"
         jitter= diagA.mean()*1e-6
         for i in range(1,maxtries+1):
-            print 'Warning: adding jitter of '+str(jitter)
+            print '\rWarning: adding jitter of {:.10e}                        '.format(jitter),
             try:
                 return linalg.cholesky(A+np.eye(A.shape[0]).T*jitter, lower = True)
             except: