The pool has been running for over 90 hours now, found 5 blocks in that time with a speed of well over 2000 Mhash, sometimes getting close to 3000! At this rate the average time to find a block is 4-5 hours.
With this in mind i was suprised to see the pool so far has an average time of over 18 hours to find a block.
Maybe it's too early to determine a true average on this 'short' runtime, but the difference is prety big. Is there a reason for this? (except for randomness)
I know everybody is interested in this question, but come on, this is not fair.
a)
Mining is absolutely about luck and statistics. There is nothing as "a right to mine block every 5 hours". Ask ArtForz for his experiences in mining; it is never to be exact.
b)
You cannot make statistics on population of 5 blocks. Forgot to block calculator statistics, when you have 5 blocks. Why are you embarassed for slightly longer time on two blocks (namely 98135 and 98238) and you did not post happy message when we found block 98139 after 30 minutes (!!) of mining?
c) Pool was near 3000mhashes/s (exactly 28xx) for maybe one hour (davout then disconnected his 5970). I mined first block almost alone with my card and we step over 2000mhash before few hours. Take a calculator and practice how counting with average works. It is
definitely not near 5 hours to block in long term average yet. Currently we are near 6 hours
if we started with 2300mhash/s on beginning!
So take a seat, keep calm and let's wait to another block :-).
So we probably cross 3000mhash barrier soon!
. But please don't continue in flame in this thread or I will begin to moderate it. Open your own thread and discuss freely.