[DAlex]

My production rate is dropping even tho I have the same number of machines with all of the PCs (7) set to get gromacs cores. From a high of nearly 300 I'm now looking at 140 to 170 a day.

The only thing I can think is the abundance of the new 388 gromacs core with its 2000 frames that I'm getting.

Anyone else had this problem or got any suggestions of things I could check. I was gaining on Shaktai in the 5000 race but am losing ground now

Thanks

DAlex

[Shaktai]

The 388's are a bit slower then the 5xx series for sure. As always it is the luck of the draw. A couple of days ago, I had all Tinker cores, and that cut my production in half. I have had a few of those 388's too. No solution but to keep on crunching.

Your overall average is still slightly ahead of me.

[mikkyo]

Don't look at your stats as a day by day thing.
When all those huge cores dump you will jump right back up where you would have been.
Take a look at the insane version of your dumps, you will feel better.

The daily average on the stats seems a bit funny as it varies wildly and a day past isn't a static day. It looks like day 2 is a day back from the last update. So if the update is every 3 hours, your 24 hours stat is really the last 8 updates, and day 2 is really the updates 9-16 updates old.
For me this creates a great rolling average that goes all over the board from 0 to 400, only to drastically change in 3 hours.
I think we are all used to seeing static production values for previous days.

It is nice to see the dump pattern to get an idea how often you dump stuff so you know not to freak out that all your machines are offline cause the 24 Hr average went to 17.

Another thing you can do is start your boxes about 12 hours apart, so all of them aren't really close togther when they all pick up the same type of core. Then they won't look dead for 9 hours and all dump together.
But given enough time they could all end up in sync again with all the different cores.

[reader50]

mikkyo is correct. The daily figures are referenced to the last update and are -24hr, -48hr, -72hr, etc.

A fixed reference would be great, and I'd naturally set it to midnight PST. Which would make the snapshots happen at 3AM in EST, 8AM in England, and 5PM in Japan.

I don't want to be unfair to our international members. At a consistent time of day, the rolling values will behave as expected from fixed snapshots.

Eventually, we'll have cookies and it will be settable per-user. If anyone has a fairer idea, please speak up.

[DAlex]

Cheers, thanks for the info. I hadn't realised how things were worked out, it makes sense now!

I think that the sudden influx of the new gromacs cores combined with the apparent drop in rate got me wondering....not that I was panicing about whether I'd match/beat Shaktai's rate, no definately not that, no way whatsover, nope

DAlex

[DAlex]

By the way, Reader50 the stats are awesome. NO other word for it. I hadn't had a look at the insane setting till prompted by Mikkyo - very smart

DAlex