Well, duh.

BOINCTasks records the "received time" of all tasks, and this information was just staring me in the face all along.

They seem to be running the ARP1 work generator on a 30-minute cron, so jobs appear to be being created twice an hour, 30 minutes apart.

That doesn't necessarily mean they're doing this EVERY hour. They may very well have criteria they need to meet before creating new workunits, such as having sufficient disk space. I believe they said this was the limitation that was keeping the flow of tasks down to a trickle. So, yes, there's two times each hour when you should be looking for tasks, but there probably aren't always tasks available at those times. I need one more task to meet my badge goal, and I'll give it a shot at the next window of opportunity and see if it works.

Yeah, that's it. The workunits are generated at specific times each hour.

I' have enough tasks now for my meager goals, but this information should be helpful to those trying to get more tasks.

Well, I've got *one* so far :-(

I got one unit on Nov.2. Nothing since then, and it isn't validated yet so the project doesn't appear on the "My Contribution" page.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. :)

2 valid, 4 pending, and 4 in progress.
The last 2 were 18 hours since I was plugging away at other tasks.
As long as they are getting done within 1 day of 7, I don't feel bad.

EDIT: So, like 14 done, and only 4 pending validation. GOOD JOB WING(WO)MEN