First thing, set your extra work buffer back to a more appropriate setting. Here at WCG, with a 0.5-day extra work buffer you should never be without work. You may choose a little more if you want to be very careful, but remember that you will probably never get a beta WU if you return your normal ones in more than one day after the distribution time.

Next, wait for your buffer to empty... Fortunately it probably does not contain really 10 days of waiting WUs yet (due to internal details of Boinc algorithms).


It is normal that you want to understand how everything works in WCG. Therefore you should take some time to read through the many topics of the "Start Here" forum. Most questions will find their answer there, and probably many that you have not even considered asking yet. Next you will still be welcome here if there are still some points to clarify.

Another way to learn is to set your client to one of the standard work profiles and watch it work during one or two weeks without changing any setting. Then make small adjustments one by one if the global performance is very different from what you wish. Boinc is rather good at learning how your machine works and how you use it, but it takes time to learn it. Therefore if you change settings constantly it will take it longer to figure things out.

Cheers. Jean.

You're going from one extreme to the other. Just leave the connects at default and you're hot enough to be considered a tomali.

Barney, in all this discussion, it seems the main purpose of the work buffer has been overlooked. It will help you survive brief network outages, or occasional server problems at WCG's end.

For this purpose, about half a day is plenty of buffer, and it won't slow down the prompt turn-around of work.

It's a tradeoff. Pick a number that suits you. The default is fine for nearly all situations.