HEY! What is a TRICKLE? It sounds like something I do in my sleep since I turned 60. NO kidding. Is it a good thing? Must be cause you are tracking them.
Man, I just love this science stuff! Can\'t wait to be a contributor. I also got over 8,000 seti things processed. How come I gots no trickle? or no credit for the units processed? Don\'t want to join a team either. I like doing my own thing besides if I discover ET, I don\'t want to share the glory, fame, excitement, shock & awe with a stranger or Jonney-Come-Lately-Whippersnapper. Send the multiplicitous answers to me directly thanks. It\'s: hank@hank.com

A trickle is a good thing :) It means that your model is still running smoothly.
Every time the model trickles it is reporting that it has progressed to that particular point. I <b>think</b> it also includes a very brief summary of results since the last trickle.

Here is a quote from the FAQ:
"A timestep represents a 1/2 hour of model time (not realtime).
Every 10,802 timesteps your model will trickle (report), and there are 24 trickles in a phase.
When you know that a model year is 12 months of 30 days (not 365 days),
you can work out that a phase is 15 years 1 day of model time (not realtime).
Each model is comprised of 3 phases."

"Here's some rough performance numbers for a reasonably quick P4, using 1 logical cpu:

Timestep = 2.2 Seconds
Trickle = 6.6 Hours
Phase = 6.6 Days
Model = 19.8 Days"

Note - all the above is quoted from the FAQ
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