spackle-xmr publishes first progress report for Monero 'Stressnet' project

spackle-xmr¹ has published the first progress report² for the Monero Stressnet³ project one week after stress testing began (June 19th @ 15:00 UTC):

The first week has been a wild ride, and there is a lot to share. [..] Congratulations to strawberry, winner of the wallet draining competition [..] Most transactions processed in an hour: 33074 (equivalent of 794000 tx per day)

Report overview

PR Improving Node Startup
 - Restarting a node while there is a large mempool can take over an hour [..]
Block Sync Size
 - Block propagation and network synchronization suffer at larger block sizes [..]
Ongoing Investigations
 - Block sync size
 - Wallet-to-daemon connectivity and performance enhancements
 - Tx pool management (including flush_txpool processing time)
General Announcements
 - explorer.stressnet.net is offline for now
 - Congratulations to strawberry, winner of the wallet draining competition
Stressnet Stats
 - Largest Block: 2.49 MB at height 2521514
 - Most transactions processed in an hour: 33074 (equivalent of 794000 tx per day)	
[..]

The full report is also available on Town⁴.

To learn more about this initiative join the #monero-stressnet⁵ channels and consult the previous Monero Observer report⁶.

This is an ongoing story and the report will be updated when new information is available.