I'm relatively new, only been running part time weekdays and full week ends. The first few units took 40 hours on my spair P 233 machine - Now the units are taking 60- 120 hrs. On my P11 400 I'm at 75% and 65 hours run time First few units were 18 - 24. On the P4 2.58 Units would pop off at 3-6 hours - Now looking at 40- 75 per unit.

Not alone in the increase. I thought I had read they were trying to have a unit take about 40 clock hours per each type machine. So they may readjust - will see in the future

Several P4s running here and one old P2 just for the fun of it.

In the past, I noted fondly that the old P2 would soldier on for several days just to give one result whilst the bigger powerful machines could sometimes achieve 2-3 results per day (only Folding selected).

In the past few days, I am seeing these machines too working for 50-90 hours per result. I check them often and sometimes see one has manged to grab a 'short' unit which it crunches successfully in a couple of hours and then it's back to another monster.

With the amount of machines I am running, each 6-hour period usually yields a few days of processing time on the 'My Devices' page. This has now changed to being a sporadic pattern.

All things considered, I am basically saying that a machine that would crunch 2-3 units per day is with these newer units managing one and a bit per day, and slower machines are now taking me up to a week to process a unit.

It's not a problem for me because I have seen this happen before both here and at UD and I am still well within the allocated periods for units. For people new to here and to the project, I would say to hang tight and not worry. Smaller units will come back

After over a year of running WCG using both the UD agent and BOINC, I've found a surprising amount of consistency with the FAAH WUs, relatively speaking. It appears that far more often than not, they do in fact run within 8-12 hours. HPF WUs tend to have had a good bit more variability. Most complete with one if not two days. I've see a number run in a matter of hours and have gone as long as almost five days on a single WU. The main thing in every case is to let 'em crunch as they will finish, one way or another.

This pentium 4 with a processor score of 187 was known to take over 80 hours for a work unit under hpf. My record of work units done shows fewer work units than average for the amount of points earned. I assume that in some way the server knows which are the big mippers and saves the big work units for them.