None of my machines have had a problem getting MCM work units. They do not get work units with every query, but the the queues seem to stay full.
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I'm seeing a similar situation. I get approximately 6 tasks each day, and after that nothing until the next day.

But if others are getting constant work, I'm guessing that there is some reason why WCG is limiting the tasks sent to me. I just don't know what it is.

First: Thank you for the reply.
Second: Since MCM is basically the only project sending out work units, everybody who is still active are all getting MCM units.
Third: I am speculating either the feeder is maxed out on the number of units it can send out at any one time or the mechanism for keeping the feeder supplied is inadequate.

So, at this point it may be beneficial to either start a second feeder for MCM or look to see where in the pipeline the bottleneck is so it can be remedied until such time as other projects resume operations.

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Dear NixChix
it is true that the number of batches processed per day is a bit lower than that of one year ago, but not hugely, and there are multiple reasons for it. MCM used to process, on average, 60-65 batches of workunits (where a batch is the entire group of workunits downloaded from the academia-linked servers of our research partners) per day, a number that would decrease to about 55 during the holidays. We are currently processing about 45 batches per day.
It is true that some volunteers have sadly left, and a few others joined - but the difference has not been as large as we feared and we seem to be more limited by our own hardware troubles, reduced total CPUs on the backend vs. the IBM era, and the networking issues with our cloud environment preventing a more reasonable number of concurrent connections to the WCG from users. To limit download issues experienced by volunteers while we await the fix for our network congestion, the maximum number of connections permitted through our load balancer in front of the download servers was lowered to half of what would be reasonable once we are able to use all of our bandwidth, i.e. the previous maxconn setting at which hung downloads were plaguing everybody.
Nonetheless, we will increase the number of MCM WUs in the next few days to compensate for the lack of other projects' WUs.

Thank you for the informative update.
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