Big jump in Linux Pending Validations in last 24 hours. Based on the evolving projection sheet been upping the cycles again [and the heatwave abating a bit]. 'Still' overbuffered by 31 days, 7 days less than previously in crunching faster. Will let the oldest go closer to target [So close and still so far away it feels :]

So gave 51 one back to the pool, but then missed to recognize that there were a dozen more getting borderline overdue. Then when the scheduler connected at 23:45 UTC, they were few hours overdue, and the repairs already returned. Oh well, you can't win them all (or will I get lucky and the Too Late script still send periodic credit?) No disaster, still on track to overshoot target. There'd be a few more to give back...

FAHV_ x2O4S-B-AS_ 0896666_ 1731_ 0-- 2372334 Too Late 6/9/15 20:55:41 6/19/15 23:48:48 2.18 / 2.26 28.0 / 0.0
FAHV_ x2O4S-B-AS_ 0896666_ 2392_ 0-- 2372334 Too Late 6/9/15 20:55:41 6/19/15 23:48:48 1.31 / 1.38 17.1 / 0.0
FAHV_ x2O4S-B-AS_ 0896666_ 2391_ 0-- 2372334 Too Late 6/9/15 20:55:41 6/19/15 23:48:48 1.47 / 1.57 19.5 / 0.0
FAHV_ x2O4S-B-AS_ 0896666_ 2388_ 0-- 2372334 Too Late 6/9/15 20:55:41 6/19/15 23:48:48 1.93 / 2.03 25.2 / 0.0
FAHV_ x2O4S-B-AS_ 0896666_ 2354_ 0-- 2372334 Too Late 6/9/15 20:55:41 6/19/15 23:48:48 1.31 / 1.34 16.6 / 0.0
FAHV_ x2O4S-B-AS_ 0896666_ 2188_ 0-- 2372334 Too Late 6/9/15 20:55:41 6/19/15 23:48:48 1.40 / 1.48 18.3 / 0.0
FAHV_ x2O4S-B-AS_ 0896666_ 2131_ 0-- 2372334 Too Late 6/9/15 20:55:41 6/19/15 23:48:48 1.38 / 1.41 17.5 / 0.0
FAHV_ x2O4S-B-AS_ 0896666_ 2011_ 0-- 2372334 Too Late 6/9/15 20:55:41 6/19/15 23:48:48 2.35 / 2.48 30.8 / 0.0
FAHV_ x2O4S-B-AS_ 0896666_ 1895_ 0-- 2372334 Too Late 6/9/15 20:55:41 6/19/15 23:48:48 1.32 / 1.40 17.4 / 0.0
FAHV_ x2O4S-B-AS_ 0896666_ 1819_ 0-- 2372334 Too Late 6/9/15 20:55:41 6/19/15 23:48:48 2.22 / 2.26 28.1 / 0.0
FAHV_ x2O4S-B-AS_ 0896666_ 2411_ 0-- 2372334 Too Late 6/9/15 20:55:41 6/19/15 23:48:48 1.43 / 1.51 18.8 / 0.0

Yesterday still 41.7K results validated, today's projection around 35K. Clearly not alone in using all possible tools in the crunching trade ;)

Put 21 35 back to feeder slots [User Abort], which were due in 22 hours. Of the previous 51 gone the same way, 31 are still listed on RS pages, and most still not having found a replacement wingman... 36 hours later. Need 0.7 days more 20 core crunching and then will be there. Suspect a few hundred then will go back, if I'm still awake... will do a last check before bedding as reaching the mark will be at a projected time of 03:08AM (my time ;). If not, they'll be crunched as none are expected to go overdue.

The PV pile of 201 dropped to just 43 in previous 24 hours, so had a good day on validated results... 526. The Linux keeps eating them like munchies ... in this hunt had the world result ranking going from 1650 to 1402 at this time. After this, the machine will get Ebola served... if 10 minutes on Windows it will be 5 minutes on Ubuntu

June 20 had the project total 36K+ validated. Today... maybe 25-30K still. it's day 10 after the end of new work, so the drop to just thousands is likely steep.

To those suggesting buying very cheap phones to Crunch with them, are you sure it is worth it?

I own a phone CPU is MTK 6589, 1,2Ghz, 4 cores. Bought end of 2013. To crunch 1 OET, I need more than 24 hours. 4 cores so I can send back 4 results every 26, 27, 30 hours, depending on how I use my phone.

Less than 4 results per day is very low, but hundreds of thousands of people sending back 4 results per day, well you can say it is still ok. But your very low budget phones, how many times do they calculate 1 task?

Because your phone is using electricity and it is not free, you have to pay for it and someone has to create it. Very soon I will buy a new phone, 8 cores, 64bits, MTK 6752 I think, ~200€. Chinese phones, bought from a importer.

So what is best? A very low budget which calculate 1 task in x hours/days or a brand new chinese phone, which are not low quality, they run very fast, have complete options, gps/glonass/beidu, nfc, 4G, 1080p, gorilla glass, 64bit cores, very good photo/video, very good quality of the screen with wide angles, dual sim, you can add a sim card, 2 or 3GB Ram. Not a known brand like Samsung or others ones, just chinese brand and of course much lower price.

So a low budget phone or a 2015 chinese phone 8 cores 64bits, very powerful?

We would need some calculating charts.

- phone brand X and CPU A calculates 1 task in x hours
- phone brand Y and CPU B calculates 1 task in x minutes
- phone brand Z and CPU C calculates 1 task in x seconds (well maybe not seconds ;)

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