You're talking about badge hunting? Have you seen your posts lately? All green and blue badges, and more years than god!

I have one crappy laptop with a single 1.46GHz processor. I am just trying to contribute, and along the way see that I am making progress. I don't think that is an unreasonable approach to this process.

Participants/crunchers should have absolute control over the priority of WUs and projects that run on their own computers.

The only other acceptable alternative (for me personally) is equal priority for all projects.

WCG administrators should never decide/assign project priority - they seem to have forgotten these are our computers.

I am not surprised people drop some projects (I have dropped otherwise worthy projects from my BOINC client too) just because of lack of control over project priority.

This is actually a good idea, but has limitations.

I prefer an app_config file over a VM or virtual machine (a virtual machine can be an inefficient way of utilising system resources - some are reserved for the virtual machine and unavailable to the host OS).

I think the biggest problem with solving project/WU priorities this way is the simple fact that the vast majority of users simply don't know how to set up these features .

I think there really is a very valid argument that can be made for giving control back to the user in a simpler fashion - people crunch for a project because they believe it is the most important one (to them) and their wishes should be respected AND implemented by administrators.

Administrators should never assign priorities to projects or they will lose crunchers - which will lead to more "prioritising" of various project WUs (which administrators feel are falling behind), leading to more user dissatisfaction, and the problem will get worse, as the cycle repeats itself.

I've noticed the same issue with UGM work units as the OP. As of yesterday I had only UGM and MCM selected but I had 87 pages of MCM's and only 23 of UGM.

What I think is happening is that a lot of people have deselected all other projects besides UGM. As a result, those machines have to get first preference for the UGM wu's. That reduces the overall pool of wu's for everyone else.

The server compensates for this by setting UGM to a lower priority. But this only affects people who have more than just the UGM project selected.

In essence, a small group of people are hogging the UGM wu's, probably to earn badges more quickly.

So last night, I became one of those wu hogs and have selected only the UGM project. I'll probably only keep things that way until I hit 20 years for the project which should be in about 3 or 4 months. Then I'll switch back.

The point is that the OP's observation is correct and this is the likely reason.