you can run a script to retry the uploads and downloads on a set interval, breaking BOINC's escalating backoff behavior.

here's the script I'm using on linux:

#!/bin/bash
for i in `./boinccmd --get_file_transfers | sed -n -e 's/^.*name: //p'`;do ./boinccmd --file_transfer http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ $i retry;done

dump this into a file and save it as whatever you want (i named it "update_transfers_wcg") and place it in the same directory that contains the boinccmd executable. make sure this script is set with proper permissions to allow execution.

then run in a terminal window from the same directory:

watch -n 120 ./update_transfers_wcg

and boom, all transfers for WCG will retry every 120 seconds

make whatever modifications you need to the script and/or execution to fit other BOINC installs or OS types. not hard to change what's needed for your own setup.

Beautiful. I think I'll put it in a cron job with random delay.

Is there a similar script for windows/dos command line? I can query the transfers with boinccmd, but from that on I'm lost :-D

Things are working better now. No uploads/downloads goes into pending, and the site is not as slow.
However I do think it's mainly because many people has gone to bed (in the U.S mainly, most Europeans are already sleeping since many hours), and their computers are now either shut down, or on longer and longer back-offs.

So, more WU's to the rest of us

Well. going by the fact that this test apparently effects the whole WCG website and other WCG projects, I think this is a rather odd place do be directed to...

And for what it is worth, it seems that this test not only effects the WCG web site but also effects the creation of external stats, at least there haven't been any since noon PST today...

Ralf