As the title states there is a very bad bug in the BOINC CC:

Since the SETI server nearly constantly ignores requests for work at the moment my clients start to suck up units from Einstein (at least one Einstein unit for every unresponded request to SETI). The queue with Einstein units is now nearly too big for the completion time. When SETI comes back to life the client will suck SETI units and then won't be able to complete the Einstein units in time.

This is a big bug in the concept! :(

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Aloha, Uli

You're supposed to post messages from boinc that prove this!

sounds odd though

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I've also seen this behaviour. Since I participate in all five, it has been occasionally happening in my case between Predictor and SETI. Predictor asks for WU, and in the middle of the responses of no work it starts downloading SETI WU.

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SETI@home classic workunits: 1,985 CPU time: 24,567 hours



Professor Desty Nova
Researching Karma the Hard Way

> You're supposed to post messages from boinc that prove this!
>
> sounds odd though
>

I have to prove nothing, i just inform about. This has been reported in many different projects. This applies certainly only to people looking over table border of SETI ;)

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Aloha, Uli