I don't know because I've been away so long. Perhaps Keith might know. The best place to ask would be in the BOINC Support forum. Sekerob is very up to date on BOINC ins and outs.

Yes, BOINC was quite stable and quite predictable prior to the 5.8 levels. I had no hesitation upgrading to new releases. When 5.8.x came out and they redid the scheduling algorithm, it was about as understandable and predictable as a dead rat in the Antartic. I can understand their wanting to have BOINC "protect the user from their own stupidity/ignoranvce" as that would actually benefit the projects by reducing the number of WU's that didn't get crunched in time. Too often though, when software starts trying to predict what the user needs to do in spite of what the user is telling it, it tends to hit the fans in the wind tunnel.

MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 07/03 - Active Members

Active team members report
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                                                     Current          Points
Active member name            Rank      Change       Points        This Period
=========================     =====     ======     ===========     ===========
CompuDude                         1          0      14,262,618           9,370
nl59056                           2          0      13,158,439           6,767
Ploetner                          3          0       9,001,294             456
marysduby                         4          0       7,661,237          32,342
Esteban69                         5          0       6,659,316           1,516
Fermez-WCG                        6          0       6,196,581             564
parmesian                         7          0       5,403,065           1,863
Graham                            8          0       3,862,085           2,243
cyberwire                         9          0       3,757,612           1,782
Coingames                        10          0       2,621,009           4,368
PohSoon                          11          0       2,104,141             992
joshuabayer                      12          0       1,958,229             914
frans6nl                         13          0       1,922,088           6,233
Fanie                            14          0       1,865,330           3,376
Rasse                            15          0       1,763,546               0
Vuj                              16          0       1,459,882           5,879
spikey_richie                    17          0       1,276,236           6,009
lawrencehardin                   18          0       1,242,471             536
siseberg                         19          0       1,150,380             353
bl1nxz                           20          0       1,129,383               0
Adywebb                          21         +3       1,119,030         121,042
Alain Bryden                     22         -1       1,075,785           4,045
txjallen                         23         -1       1,043,654             539
Rulkethecharon                   24         -1       1,012,793             586
largethunder                     25          0         970,071             655
charlie99                        26          0         950,677               0
John Parker                      27          0         940,740             786
Wunderwuzzi                      28          0         901,480           1,476
smcclarigan                      29          0         874,248               0
Johnwoods                        30          0         856,967               0
finman                           31          0         801,905               0
AStafford                        32          0         771,496               0
kkelson                          33          0         707,505               0
Dave Bell                        34         +1         705,208           7,190
SteelDragon                      35         -1         704,004               0
newtod                           36          0         690,431             710
Tomwp                            37          0         667,264             226
Vialls                           38          0         628,062               0
Pwrguru@BC                       39         +1         496,401          23,796
Aleph0                           40         -1         481,633               0
keithhenry                       41          0         466,109           1,013
Sunny L. Kae                     42          0         437,043             946
SAKU1303                         43          0         422,049               0
Barramundi                       44          0         386,088               0
Edward McCoy                     45          0         382,782             442
JerBlock                         46          0         375,964             714
laughing66607                    47          0         359,498               0
Airwolf_Liu                      48          0         349,725             222
dtype                            49          0         343,756               0
Raptor_2007                      50          0         321,604           9,435
Kevin Deslauriers                51         +1         306,435             846
Mr. Plates                       52         -1         305,711               0
Blueprint                        53          0         251,979               0
wrr                              54         +1         248,669           1,692
gherm                            55         -1         247,941               0
Liam1985                         56          0         238,890               0
WARDSTAR                         57          0         237,511               0
RetiredPB                        58          0         220,978             149
VAIO GRX616                      59          0         219,559           8,344
Justin Strickland                60          0         178,100           1,885
Lanscader                        61          0         174,627               0
Bon Kuhlman                      62          0         164,832               0
elpe                             63          0         155,499               0
Adywebb@BC                       64          0         148,288             439
Verhaegh                         65          0         143,783             506
amusic20                         66          0         140,635             324
John Conrad                      67          0         140,150               0
MSH22                            68          0         137,767               0
Momentary Lapse of Reason        69          0         136,600               0
pramodp                          70          0         134,202               0
Arthur256                        71          0         128,284               0
harry_i_c                        72          0         125,454               0
shinob925                        73          0         124,386               0
mapplebeck                       74          0         119,599               0
cknotty                          75          0         119,149               0
barney15c                        76          0         115,727             648
sulcata                          77         +1         108,162           1,951
Calamity                         78         -1         108,150               0
dub4u                            79          0         103,602               0
lenmccart                        80          0          96,823               0
grem0rlin                        81          0          92,109               0
Sanddancer                       82          0          85,721             181
johng                            83          0          81,050               0
TLD                              84          0          80,349               0
Orakk                            85          0          79,944               0
xZeddx                           86          0          70,483             374
platinumbus177                   87          0          68,877               0
Harry de Swart                   88          0          68,466             433
Natalino                         89          0          65,328               0
PioPicone                        90          0          64,728               0
madambaster                      91          0          63,671               0
ShortTom007                      92          0          60,197               0
jan.fratric                      93          0          55,957               0
Charles Chan                     94          0          49,764           1,958
shawnangelo                      95          0          38,589             514
rwillis                          96          0          32,294           1,153
Jo Johnson                       97          0          30,790               0
Hintsala                         98          0          21,540           1,070
Daragaaz                         99          0          17,680               0
sammercer                       100          0          14,094               0
WoytaZ                          101          0           5,567               0
Raptor1947                      102          0           2,091               0

Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days.

Top Ten active members returning points today:
01: Adywebb - 121,042 points
02: marysduby - 32,342 points
03: Pwrguru@BC - 23,796 points
04: Raptor_2007 - 9,435 points
05: CompuDude - 9,370 points
06: VAIO GRX616 - 8,344 points
07: Dave Bell - 7,190 points
08: nl59056 - 6,767 points
09: frans6nl - 6,233 points
10: spikey_richie - 6,009 points

Total points returned today: 281,853
Active members returning points today: 52
Average points per member active today: 5420.25

Today we were passed by XtremeSystems in total run time. We also have a sizable drop in the number of members returning a result today. That is clearly due to the holiday tomorrow, folks being out on vacation and machines being turned off in the meantime. Not much that can be done about that except for getting thru the week as best we can and thanking those of you who continued to crunch today whether you are there with your machine or not.

Aujourd'hui nous avons été passés par XtremeSystems dans le temps d'exécution total. Nous avons également une baisse considérable dans le nombre de membres renvoyant un résultat aujourd'hui. C'est clairement dû aux vacances demain, des gens ayant lieu dehors des vacances et des machines étant éteintes en attendant. Pas beaucoup qui peut être fait à ce sujet excepté obtenir par la semaine car mieux nous bidon et remercier ceux de vous qui a continué à craquer aujourd'hui, que vous soyez là avec votre machine ou pas.

今日私達は総ランタイムのXtremeSystems を渡された。私達はまた結果を今日戻しているメンバーの数の大きい低下を有する。それは休日のために、休暇にあっている人々及び一方で消される機械明日はっきりある。ので最もよく私達缶週によって得ることおよびあ
なたの機械とそこにあるかどうか今日砕け続けたあなたのそれらに感謝することを除いてそれについてすることができるない多く。

XtremeSystems en tiempo de pasada total nos pasamos hoy. También tenemos una gota importante en el número de los miembros que vuelven un resultado hoy. Eso es claramente debido al día de fiesta mañana, gente que es hacia fuera el vacaciones y las máquinas que son dadas vuelta apagado en entretanto. No mucho que se puede hacer sobre eso a excepción de conseguir por la semana pues lo más mejor posible nosotros lata y de agradecer los de usted que continuó crujiendo hoy si usted está allí con su máquina o no.

Great work!