John Donson wrote:

From the seti-site:

July 22, 2004
We found and fixed the no results bug. It was a malformed embedded SQL
query. But we are leaving the scheduler off overnight to let the
transitioner work through it's backlog. The transitioner works a great
deal faster with a small backlog and we hope yesterday's changes will go a
long way in preventing a large backlog from recurring.

What does the transitioner actually do?

"Transitioner

This program is supplied by BOINC and is application independent. It handles
state transitions of workunits and results. It generates initial results
for workunits, and generates more results when timeouts or errors occur. It
has the command-line option:

-mod n i

If present, this instance of the transitioner will handle only workunits for
which mod(id, n) = i. This lets you run arbitrarily many instances of the
transitioner."

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/backend_programs.php