alpha, are you using the free-dc proxy? From the official proxies I'm getting something like 4-10-* to 4-14-*. That's where we should be right now. Perhaps you're getting recycled nodes?

According to the stats (http://stats.distributed.net/project...?project_id=27), we've not yet started the double-check round ("verficiation"). I guess they want to find the "shorter" ruler (if it exists) first, as this should improve the speed of the whole search.