On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:49:19 +0930, "Zilva Zanga"
<zilva_zanga@yahoo.com> wrote:

"Klaatu" <mutster8_nospam_@netscape.net> wrote in message 
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Zilva Zanga wrote:

12/09/2005 7:51:20 PM||Using earliest-deadline-first scheduling because
computer is overcommitted.

Everyone who's run a BOINC project has got a similar message in the past.

I just re-installed my pc, loaded BOINC + SETI & got the error message.
I have a 3.0 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM & the earliest deadline is 26 Sep 
05.

How am I Over committed?

Not much info in post, what boinc version etc., apparently using windows.
See
http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/index.php?title=Computer_is_overcommitted
or do a keyword search at S@H or E@H on the word overcommitted. 
Apparently
a small bug in some versions of boinc that works itself out if you leave 
it
alone or upgrade to the latest version.

My post was badly worded, it was intended as a rhetorical question. However, 
BOINC is v4.45 running on Winxp & I can turn my computer off for 6 days, 21 
hours & still meet the deadlines on all my cached workunits. 

As previously stated this is a "feature" in the newer versions that
needs some tweaking. It works after the program gets used to how your
computer works but in the beginning it thinks that you will never meet
the deadlines so thinks the computer is overcommitted.
The idea is that if you start getting close to the deadlines for the
different projects Boinc will recognize that you cannot meet them with
your current percentage of use settings so gives the overcommitted
message and spends more time on one project that your settings would
otherwise allow.