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Fired up the laptop for the first time in several weeks. It's been on 24/7 for 3 days now and had 6 projects running. I set the projects so that I should have got lots of work for it by setting 'connect every 5 days'. This used to work fine - but it isn't having it! I'm getting around 5 hours worth which is a pain as it's only connected to the 'network' manually maybe twice a day and runs out of work especially if a WU runs unexpectedly quick which can happen with ABC WUs. I detached all bar 2 projects to give another chance which hasn't helped.

In 'messages' I just had the message 'Message from Server:(Won't finish in time) Computer on 15.4% of time, BOINC on 100% of that, the project gets 50% of that'

I'm assuming that 15.4% has been measured over a longer period than the computer has actually been on. I.E. measurement over 20 days. Computer been on 3 days. (3/20)*100 = 15%

So it seems that it won't get it's full quota until 20 days have elapsed. I blame BOINC 5.8.?? Pain in the butt!  :D

Are you running the latest client? I seem to remember getting messages similar to this with 5.8.15.  Doesn't seem to happen with 5.8.16 though.

RodEllery wrote:Are you running the latest client? I seem to remember getting messages similar to this with 5.8.15.  Doesn't seem to happen with 5.8.16 though.

Thought that was it! I said it was a few weeks since it had been on and it was at 5.8.15. Just upgraded it to 5.8.16 and still getting the same message except it's now at 15.8%.

As we're going away next week and I'll have to switch the laptop off during this time - it looks like it'll have to start all over again when we get back - ho hum!

You could always revert to 5.4.11 which is still available on the BOINC site though some projects don't recommend still using this.

While running ABC beta the computers request thousands of seconds work..get 1 wu defer communication for 30 seconds then get another and so on until they have downloaded enough which is not a big problem.....except my fastest machine only starts to download another wu when it has finshed one so there is always a small period of no crunching and it needs a constant connection to keep getting more wu's..settings are the same as all the others the only difference is it is running vista. Strange behaviour?

That happens here too. I keep a WU with a distant deadline from another project loaded so, in the few seconds between ABC Betas, that gets a bit of work and I'm not wasting potential crunching time.