Go to the results status page and click on the work unit name.

Clicking on the status gives the output log.

Seeing same here, but a phenomena exclusive to BOINC. Even when 3 have been validated, #4 still has to wait a while....several hours observed. Also because of the option to allow comms delays, the quorum of 3 final validation is pure luck. Observed WU's that had a single result returned, then waiting for days before a second or third coming thru.....at the end it all balances, but the daily and 6 hourly stats do get a little distorted...in the eyes beholder.

Also consider this....when i joint WCG back in July 05, there were less than 100000 devices....we're growing accilerated now well of 300000. Here the updates are run every 6 hours and back then took 10 minutes or less, but now including the pre-stat routines close to 40/45 minutes.....larger community will surely require adapted processes.

Thanks Kevin! I must have hit a string with just the right timing as I was seeing this on the last few WU's I've returned. Hmm, I might just want to go buy some lottery tickets........

The validators are stopped at the following times each day:

1:00 to about 1:30 UTC
7:00 to about 11:00 UTC
13:00 to about 13:30 UTC

Stats are run at 0:06, 6:06, 12:06, 18:06 each day.

I took a look at your workunit and noticed that it wasn't actually validated until 13:30 UTC so I went digging into why. What I found is that BOINC has a feature built into it that detects if it is 'behind' (too many results coming in to keep up). This feature assumes that the validators are running continuously. Since we periodically stop the validators, this mechanism kicks in. This results in the validation for each workunit being performed at a time twice the time it was determined to be behind.

What this means here is that if the workunit was ready for validation at 9:45 UTC and the validators were turned back on at 11:00 UTC, then that workunit would not be actually validated until 13:30 UTC. In the extreme case, if a workunit was ready for validation at 7:00 UTC (just after the validators were stopped) and the validators were started again at 11:00 UTC then actual validation would be performed at 19:00 UTC.

This means that you might not have been awarded all of your points in time for the 12 UTC stats update (for results returned between 7:00 UTC and about 11:00 UTC) and in the worse case it would miss the 18 UTC. However, the max delay as a result of this is that by 19:00 UTC the system would be 'caught up' and all end of day processing (including team stats) would include the full day stats.

Ok - having written all of that above and not wishing to have to explain it again (and of course wanting members to receive their points quickly), I will investigate if we can leave the validators on during the 7:00 - 11:00 window. It isn't strickly necessary and was only done to reduce contention.

Kevin