That's also my experience, Al!

Someone's task timed out, came back at 2024-06-24T17:59:42 (all times in UTC), then my device picked it up at 2024-07-03T13:28:06 (WU 543406168).
Someone else's task didn't reply at 2024-06-25T01:01:12 and my device picked it up at 2024-07-03T14:14:39 (WU 543417704).
Another task finally timed out and got returned at 2024-06-26T21:51:42 and was picked up at 2024-07-03T12:00:44 (WU 542998859).
Furthermore, further looking back, I'm seeing 5 tasks picked up at 2024-07-03T10:28:40, two at 2024-07-03T09:33:55 and one at 2024-07-03T09:17:36.

Interesting one:
WU 542497973 has one 'No Reply' task that refuses to display its OS and OS-version.

And that's not all, since these were all tasks stiil In Progress, I have also some tasks that are already Valid, of which four were sent to me at 2024-07-03T09:34:52, one at 2024-07-03T09:25:56, one at 2024-07-03T09:12:46, one at 2024-07-03T09:02:28, all originally sent on the 17th of June, and three sent to me at 2024-07-03T08:38:17, all originally sent on the 16th, of which two in their workunits also refuse to display their OS+version.
And also: one of my tasks is Pending Validation, originally sent at 2024-06-17T01:03:09, received at my place at 2024-07-03T09:02:28 (WU 542333716).

Adri
EDIT:
PS My oldest three tasks, still waiting for wingmen, were originally sent at 2024-06-16T15:52:48, and this morning at 2024-07-03T07:54:10 each one has been assigned a wingman.

I've noticed a slight increase in the number of waiting tasks since late on 2024-07-10, but most of them seem to clear out within 12 to 30 hours, the exceptions being items that were already waiting before then but were for Aborted tasks rather than retries (it appears to be related to workunit ids in some way[*1])

I'm currently looking into something that might be a contributory factor[*2] -- have you noticed that the number or retries for Detached tasks suddenly shot up on 2024-07-09 (and seem to remain high up to now) and delayed retries started to re-appear within 24 hours... (I don't believe I'm the only person getting between 10% and 20% retries each day and seeing well over 50% of tasks involving a retry (including mine)... )

Cheers - Al.

*1 I could "show my work" regarding that conclusion, but I don't think hundreds of chunks of per-WU data would go down very well here :-)

*2 When I've finished that I might write it up in Unixchick's status thread in the Chat Room -- it would fit better there than here, I think :-)

As of a few moments ago, this is the oldest of the "Waiting to be sent category":

MCM1_0220314_6557
Project name: Mapping Cancer Markers
Created: Jul. 7, 2024 - 03:34 UTC
Name: MCM1_0220314_6557
Minimum Quorum: 2
Replication: 2
Result name OS type OS version Status Sent time Time due/ Return time Cpu time/ Elapsed time Claimed credit/ Granted credit

MCM1_0220314_6557_0 Microsoft Windows 10 Professional x64 Edition, (10.00.19045.00) Pending Validation 2024-07-07 03:37:41 UTC 2024-07-07 05:26:51 UTC 1.81 / 1.82 74.8 / 0

MCM1_0220314_6557_1 Microsoft Windows 11 Education x64 Edition, (10.00.22621.00) No Reply 2024-07-07 03:37:29 UTC 2024-07-13 03:37:29 UTC

MCM1_0220314_6557_2 Microsoft Windows 10 Professional x64 Edition, (10.00.19045.00) Error 2024-07-14 14:07:24 UTC 2024-07-17 19:33:17 UTC

MCM1_0220314_6557_3 Waiting to be sent

cz50975, are you asking for more processing power to process the work faster to your result can be sent to another computer?

The work you were referring to became valid at 2024-07-25 10:59:40 UTC