Thanks for the reply -

I may not have explained as well as I could have. It doesn't seem to me to be a short time (relatively speaking I guess) and not just in blocks that are solved quickly. I usually am running between 96 and 101 Gh/s and my miners are steady within that range until a block is found. Once a block is found and the stat page has the block in 'processing', I am hashing between 85 and 89 Gh/s for the 35 - 40 minutes (or so) it takes to finish processing. I watch for a recovery to the 96 to 101 Gh/s rate and it only comes back after I have a reward posted and 'processing' is no longer displayed for the block. This has happened 7 times in a row that I have made sure to watch. I was going to wait for the current block to finish before posting, but its taking forever 

I originally thought it might be adjustment to the new block...and I guess it is still possible, but it just seemed odd that the hash rate dropped right when the block was found and processing started, then came back when processing was finished for every block I watched, no matter the speed of the block. I guess I will make some more observations that are better timed to see if I find more clues.

Thanks again...

Hey all - I am unsure as to the normality of the following as I am new to mining, so a little advice would be helpful please...

It appears to me that every time a block is found and the stats page has the 'processing' message for the block that was just found, my hash rate dips 6 - 10 gh/s (not stuck at one interval, when I refresh the screen it varies between 6 & 10 Gh/s).

I noticed the dip on a block about 4 days ago and just passed it off as some sort of network re-adjustment. I bounced the miner client and it didn't help. I looked an hour or so later and everything was normal, so I figured I must have needed a reset. I noticed it again a couple of blocks later and tried the same thing, but watched it more closely. The hashes only came back up after the last block quit processing and showed my BTC reward. I then started to watch for a correlation. After closer notice of the last 7 blocks, every time a block is found I see the trail off in hashes and as soon as it is done processing the hash rate bounces right back. Is this an accepted pool trait or should I be looking at my mining hardware?


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