| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 10 Aug 2000 at 11:51:06 |
| Subject: | Re: Another RC5 quirk |
hi,
> Yesterday I uploaded five days worth of work to the server and the stats page
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> says;
>
> 676 blocks were completed yesterday (0.00000098% of the keyspace)
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> at a sustained rate of 2,100 KKeys/sec! Ranked 10,791 for the day.
> Yesterday is this participant's best day ever!
>
> The odds are 1 in 54,194 that this participant will find the key before anyone
> else does.
>
> Now someone REALLY needs to re-write the code that manages the stats database.
> I'm running a 603-160MHz and an 040-25MHz how do they get 2,100KKeys per sec?
the blocks are all put through in the nightly run. as you said, you did 5
days worth before uploading. 676 blocks on one day is 2.1Mkeys/s
divide that by 5 and you get 400kkeys/s- your real 'daily' rate.
the most I've evet flushed in one go is 5,600 blocks. quite nice ;-)
alan
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