"John F Hall" <jfh@green.home> wrote:

That's because Berkeley seem to have programmed a "Denial of Service"
attack against themselves.  It's clear their "backing off" stategy is
seriously flawed.  I hope they will rethink it.

Indeed.  This is another example of BOINC hanging itself through its
own complexity.  In the good ol' days of Classic, the client would try
once and then retry after 1 hour -- that seemed to work pretty well
without all these fancy algorithms.  ;-)