I meant WCG work. Outside of cryptography I don't see the use of finding ever larger primes. I will only crunch work that I feel as a significant value.

Only 1 re-send since 18 July.

Mike

Sunday Report

1,978 units in generations up to and including 146 remain stuck and may have been joined by 10 from generation 147.

There are 101 units in generation 148 and 25,701 in generation 149, which is the current generation.

We are now 36% of the way through generation 149.

There are now 7,819 units held in generation 150.

16,269 units have validated in the week, but there are 1,228,448 units to go.

Based on the last 5 weeks, we would complete ARP1 on 27 January 2027, but we are getting close to where the stuck units will hold the completion up.

Mike

Yes, that was last week's figure.

Now corrected.

Mike

That's interesting, Adri - thanks for an insight from a larger monthly sample than I can do!

I've done some work concentrating on WUs with tasks that missed deadlines (for whatever reason), and as it takes me a quarter to clock up as many tasks as your month, I offer the following for April to June 2025...

I had 1444 successful returned results (and 1 Server Aborted!). Those WUs had 129 retries of one sort or another (8.9%); of these, only 61 were attributable to missed deadlines, so that's about 4.2% of WUs taking 6+ days to resolve.

(The other retries were mostly download errors, user aborts or validation issues; there were hardly any actual run-time errors.)

35 of those 61 tasks only had 2 valid results, the task that missed the deadline either ending up at "Not started by deadline" or still being at No Reply when the WU was purged from the database (I now track all my tasks until d/b purge rather than just validation -- much more informative!)

That leaves 26 WUs that ended up with 3 validated results (1.8% of WUs). The amount by which the missed deadline task was late ranged from a few minutes to over 36 hours, with most of them returning within 24 hours.

Of the WUs that didn't need missed-deadline retries, 81 took more than 3 days to complete, with only 14 taking over 120 hours.

Cheers - Al.

P.S. The above is drawn from some [messy] queries on my wingmen database rather than detailed scripting, so there may be slight errors at the boundaries of the period I looked at. A proper analysis script is on the agenda, but "There are only 24 hours in the day and there is only one of me"...