Thought 6.5.x were alpha's, the uneven minor, but yes, following the developers forum, it sure reads as having a serious alpha feel to it.

Hi ramotsol!
From your post I understand that you run Boinc in this machine with a 7-day long extra work buffer. This is about the maximum that one can ever get for WCG. Therefore if it happens that a given task is lasting, say, 20 % longer than estimated by Boinc, when Boinc will adjust the estimated duration of each pending job by +20 % the size of the queue will become something like 8.4 days and Boinc will not fetch any new work during 1.4 day, whatever you do.

Anyway, with such a huge buffer your machine should never become idle unless you connect to WCG only once a week, maybe.

Cheers. Jean.

Didactylos,
I was not trying to hide or even minimize 6.6.x glitches, I was only warning ramotsol that with such a big extra work buffer he would risk such problems even with a stable release and that whatever work fetching problems he can see will not be much helpful for debugging any lousy release.

Cheers. Jean.

Which is indeed the case with the computer in question. Both my computers travel a lot and have to adjust to this situation. But as long as I can fetch work the rest is minor problems that can be handled. I assume that in the 6.6.4 case the Boinc manager does not properly deal with projects indebted to each other - pure speculation of course.

And why is he using the betas in the first place? Well, some new functions have proved valuable (for instance the "Properties" buttons). And I confess I am curious to observe how long it takes to solve the various documented Boinc problems - and the new problems created in the process. So as long as my cruching is valid...