Ouch! That's a lot of crunching!

Maybe we can get a better answer.

Actually, a thread was started in Suggestions/Feedback under the name Quorum of 3 Change, May 20, 2006. This little bit of news has impacted the community dramatically, certainly i've seen lots of buzz on our DPC Team forum. Claiming that things have returned to normal, well not quite yet, but theory is, it should. For now impact in first 3 days was quite shocking on a Global scale, but BOINC specifically (a guess as UD agent validation will have remained the same):

Global CPU time comparison against recent production with 4 WU copies:
_______________Last Wk ___This Wk ____________
Day____________4WU set___3 WU set__Difference
Saturday________115,3 yrs__112.3 yrs__- 3.0 yrs
Sunday_________116,0 yrs__103.3 yrs__- 12.7 yrs
Monday_________136,3 yrs__131.2 yrs__- 5.1 yrs

My guess for the bigger drop on Sunday is, because there were surely still a bunch of 4WU sets out there on Saturday. Sunday the wakeup call, and Monday some catch up, but still no full recovery. My believe thus is, that there will be permanently a very large size, probably 0.5x2 to .75 daysx2 worth of unvalidated results out there.

Personally, if this Tuesday is not going to show return to near last weeks production, other, maybe human behavioural effects are impacting.

Throwing up a ball, I'd almost believe that if 2 WU's of 3 are returned and near identical, the validation could apply, the third return still to be tested if near enough to other 2

Anyway, i agree with Mr Cool that a Member news notice would be in order, as most everyone reads those announcements.

Thanks Didactylos, I suppose we'll wait and see

As for blip, what agent do you run? My team dropped close to 25% on day 2 and recovered, but on microscale, nothing should be said, as we have these flushers in the team that 'time' their deliveries

I went from normally 1 or 2 in validation to 4 in validation. This is 15 hours equiv.cpu time, the oldest now 72 hours. In my team all BOINCers report very dramaticl increase in 'backlog' if you can call it that.

Having a knack for statistics, do you have numbers, how many find quorum on 1,2,3,4 days etc.....there is the allowed 3 weeks max, and I do occasionally stumble on a WU that really does take a week or 10 days (mostly because i'm doing actually some crunching), but would those 1week+ returns not be the exceptions rather than the rule?

have a nice day

Well, the stats (at least for me), are way off the mark. I have over 30 hours of crunching that are still being held up.