I have about 1.5 pages of outstanding tasks that got downloaded recently. The due dates span from 29 July (i.e. 3 days away) to some time in september.

I would have thought the tasks would be executed in due date order so not to be overdue but for some reason the tasks are processing starting with the mid August due dates. Why is that? Is it a bug?

Intel Mac Seti V5.18 Boinc 5.10.7

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I suspect someone will provide a better response, but for now, they have a complex formula to determine which job to run first and sometimes it makes some strange decisions. Part of the reason is they must support climate jobs running for as much as a year with short term jobs. What you are seeing is normal and as long as you don't ask for a large abount of work, should not give you any trouble. I think I have a better way but it is also somewhat complex and I don't know if it's worth installing for what it will gain.

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Thats fair enough for multiple projects, but I would have thought within a project, e.g. just seti job execution would have been priority on date due.

I had several jobs which were due yesterday which didn't get processed because later jobs were in progress.

Thats life.

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I agree, but because of the out of order processing, I only allow my system to hold one days worth of work. If you go over 3 days of work, you may have a problem with short deadline work units or at least that is what I have seen.
The thread I was questioning task order was http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=37585

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