Hello ! Has anybody else noticed that some workunits last between 40 seconds - 5 minutes (at least in my case) ? And I wonder , which is the reason of this ? I heard something about "noisy workunits" , I am not sure about the accurate meaning of this. However , I noticed the app quits because can't hadle more than(30) events .

Are we near the E.T or it's just a computer malfunction ? ;)

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=4605828174

<core_client_version>7.0.36</core_client_version>
setiathome_v7 7.21 Revision: 2006 arm-linux-androideabi-g++ (GCC) 4.6 20120106 (prerelease)
libboinc: BOINC 7.2.4
Work Unit Info:
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WU true angle range is : 0.396149
Optimal function choices:
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name timing error
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v_BaseLineSmooth (no other)
vfp_GetPowerSpectrum 0.000742 0.00000
vfp_ChirpData 0.056096 0.00000
v_pfTranspose4 0.028478 0.00000
opt NEON folding 0.004581 0.00000
SETI@Home Informational message -9 result_overflow
NOTE: The number of results detected equals the storage space allocated.

Flopcounter: 21964711357.021652

Spike count: 30
Autocorr count: 0
Pulse count: 0
Triplet count: 0
Gaussian count: 0
08:44:17 (28832): called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>
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A noisy wu, or shorty, is one where this section

Spike count: 30
Autocorr count: 0
Pulse count: 0
Triplet count: 0
Gaussian count: 0

has a total of 30; it's assumed the wu has a lot of radio noise in it and 30 is used as a cutoff to stop 'wasting time' on it if there's just going to be a lot of noise....

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