Hi,

I joined asteroids@home just a few days ago and there are already more than 100 workunits waiting for validation. Is the validation just painfully slow by design or are there some software/hardware issues to sort out ?

Thanks

Sebastian

Hi Sebastian,

This is pretty normal for this project; I just checked and have approximately 250 units waiting for validation. The project occasionally runs out of work, so I think that a lot of users have long work queues to make sure that their CPUs and GPUs stay fed. When I first started I checked the settings of many of the computers that were crunching the other half of my work unit and found that 7 days was a common turnaround time.

Don't worry too much about it though, as this is just a sign that your turnaround is a bit faster than average. Eventually you will reach a steady-state where the number of unvalidated units will stabilize.

On another note; welcome to asteroids@home! :)

Regards,
Kellen

My daily credit has just dropped like a stone to 3 WU's today, & currently have 73 WU's 'Validation Pending' - is this normal, or is something stuck...?