Well Sir, i've had the 'alternate' option on, and received 3 days worth of FAAH, my fall-back project on BOINC....it gave the response:

It had crunched thru all in the work buffer and was giving me only HDC's piece-meal.....not in batches of 10 (which the machine can do per day), not 6, just 2 at the time, just before that.

20,000 is with alot of past work buffered out in the field and we have dipped at times to 15,000 daily....unfortunately the 'by-project' stats don't provide the daily production list like the global stats do. But from the event above on August 30, I'd expect for some dip to appear this or next week.

Added: one of the WCG techs explained that 20% of available work goes to BOINC (with work buffer), where i suspect the fast machine to be, who have only 1 week deadline, whereas 80% goes to UD agent, who have 3 weeks of deadline......we cant see their turnaround time, but converse to BOINC, expect a lot of part-time machines there.

ciao