I suspect that project weight settings suffer the same problems that are seen with device registrations and other device/profile changes. Sometimes it takes quite a few days for the changes to filter through :-(

If the web form is submitting the changes to the non-BOINC database and the mechanism for telling BOINC is running late (or not at all), what crashtech reported would happen so I thought I'd test this myself...

I changed the project weight on the default project and tried several Updates on more than one system (and yes, they are all on the default!); no change... So I also upped my MCM1 quotas to see whether the issue is with more aspects of the profile, and so far it still seems to be using the old quota (and, as often happens, it is not always replacing reported tasks at once anyway...)

I initiated this test at about 18:50 UTC on 2024-10-12. I'll keep checking periodically to see if/when the project weight changes -- I suspect it won't be until after the weekend, but...

I rather suspect that the data centre "planned outage" has something to do with this :-(

Cheers - Al.

P.S. A post in the Device Profiles issue News thread or one of the forums in the Support category might have come to WCG's attention slightly sooner (but then again...)