It seems to be feast or famine. I finished the last of a number of Rosetta WU three days ago, and have got no new WU since. I tried resetting and updating the project thinking that those actions might "tickle" the system, but no luck.

It also seems that when I DO get Rosetta work, I get too many WU (up to 10 at one time) to finish in the time allotted with my preferences. I have had to cancel several that I KNEW would not finish before deadline.

Running XP SP2 on a 2.4 ghz P4; shared with Seti@home (2/3 Rosetta, 1/3 Seti). Might this have to do with a "deficit" in Seti due to all the Rosetta done at once?

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Yes, "debt" is the word BOINC uses. BOINC will take care of itself, but keep in mind, it is learning your habits from the actions you are taking, and how long your machine is on, and etc. And it tries to use all of this information to gather a reasonable queue of work for you. If it misses once and a while, it may be that you have somehow confused it by your actions. (such as by altering your Rosetta preferred runtime). Give it time and it will settle down.

There is more related info. in this thread.

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