99.9% of the work units on my computer take just over 4 hours. Once in a while I get strange work units that take many times longer. If I stop Boinc Manager and restart, the work unit will often finish, sometimes not. Other times things will not make sense, like after 10 hours a work unit is 10% complete with only 16 hours left. You do the math, it just doesn't work out. I check my CPU status, and my computer isn't working on anything else. I basically use my computer for email, so it's not like it's busy trying to solve the answer to world peace now and then. What it going on?

I have my computers set to 5% einstein and 95% seti. However, at least one of them seems to disregard the setting and continues to download a lot of einstein work, despite a large backlog of seti work. And, all the running wu's are in high priority mode.

So what parameter in this mess is screwed up and how do I 'reset' it.

(And why doesn't boinc have a self-healing mode that obviates the need for human intervention, assuming my parameters are indeed scrambled.)

Look at the "long term debt" entries in client_state.xml.

I'd suggest that BOINC is not in fact ignoring your resource shares, but has for whatever reason done "extra" SETI, and is now trying to do extra Einstein to make up.

Einstein gets priority because the low resource share along with their deadline means strict 5% round-robin scheduling will go over deadlines -- so just having one probably means it has to run at high priority.

You can stop BOINC and edit the long term debts (to zero) which basically resets the accounting for resource shares back to level. Expect them to start drifting as soon as you restart -- especially since BOINC will push to finish Einstein on time.

A few of us are trying to track the cause of 500 errors.
It appears that it may have something to do with MTU sizes.

To get to the source of this I have several questions.

1. What type of connection do you have to your ISP?
(dial-up, DSL, Cable, Other [specify other]
DSL

2. What equipment are you using to access your ISP?
(cable modem [manufacturer, mode], DSL Modem, Other)
DSL-Modem

3. Are you running other applications that could consume bandwidth? (bit torrent, win mx, napster, etc)
No other applications

4. Are you connected directly to your cable/dsl modem or is there a router or switch in line?
Router

5. Are you willing to share a network trace with one of us?
Yes