Odd SETI result... 1-minute WU...

[GeoffS]

I got this result and, while I like 1-minute results, it is a little disconcerting. Does this happen often?

Result: 06my03aa.14882.22770.517322.128
Seti File Name 06my03aa.14882.22770.517322.128
Time Recorded Tue 2003 May 06 9:33:14pm (135 days 15 hr 24 min ago)
Downloaded from setiqueue at Fri 2003 Sep 19 2:42:56am (10 hr 14 min ago)
Ra, Dec 31.929, 8.26
Angle Range 3.069
Estimated Tera FLOPs 3.34553
Was Queued in Q0003
Platform i386-winnt-cmdline
Seti@home Version 3.08
Completed by PROJECTS
Downloaded at Sun 2003 Sep 14 4:05:38pm (4 days 20 hr 51 min ago)
Completed at Fri 2003 Sep 19 2:44:05am (10 hr 13 min ago)
Cpu Time 1 min 8 sec

 

[conjur]

I get them from time to time...I've seen sub-minute WUs, too.

 

[Smoke]

There is the occasional WU that contains too much static and the client aborts the analysis. The result file is sent in and you get credit.

If you start getting one after another like that then you need to check your machine. Bad memory and/or OCing have been known to cause this condition. Letting a machine do WU after WU on a machine and turning in massive "fast WUs" like that is considered cheating. We had that condition on some our teammates' computers before but we have fixed the problem as soon as possible. Don't worry about the occasional fast one ... they help your average CPU.

 

[dxkj]

I see these pop up on queues every once in a while.


Pretty much what Smoke said or at least he is my source for knowledge on that subject.

 

[deerslayer]

It'll happen sometimes, but you shouldn't get them all the time.

 

[Assimilator1]

Yeah what Smoke said ,btw I had 1 which was 7 seconds!:Q

 

[dxkj]

I had a 6 sec and a 5 sec yesterday, but that was out of 69 wu. the rest were 10-12hrs

 

[Assimilator1]

Dang! ,I got beat

 

[dxkj]

someone in smoke's queue beat us both with a 0.0second result

 

[Coolkid]

I had a 2 minute one once

 

[Spacehead]

I had 3 of them the other day, all recorded on May 6th or 7th of this year. I happened to catch one while i was looking at SETI Spy. Kind cool to watch it rack up about 250 spikes in a couple of minutes.