"Larry Weak" <lweak.no@spam.wavecable.com> wrote in message 
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"Paul Schofield" <paul7876@btinternet.com> wrote in message 
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Hi all,

Has anyone else been having problems with boinc stuck with uploading WU's 
or not switching projects?
I have several seti work units waiting to be sent, and its been stuck on 
uploading since yesterday.
Also, it doesn't seem to be switching to other projects, even though I'm 
running four in total.
I can't see anything wrong with my settings.

Paul

i See two problems being discribed in this thread .
1. Not uploading this can be answered inpart by this link.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/tech_news.php

2. Not switching between projects.  This AFAIK is caused by project defect 
that are tracked by the moinc manager.  Because one project is down - the 
defect continues to grow to such a large value that when work does finally 
come in boinc will dl so many wu that it overobligates the machine so it 
switches into earlist deadline first mode.  Meaning it will try and 
complete all wu's that may exceed thier deadline first then move onto the 
other projects.  This then propogates the defect on the other project and 
cycle starts all over again.  But eventually it works itself out.
Larry

Thanks Larry, I think you may have got it there.
Sometimes, I have seen messages saying 'Note: not requesting new work or 
sending results' and 'Suspending work fetch because computer is 
overcomitted'.
I'm not sure about the part saying not sending results, because its been 
doing that fine (except with seti at the moment), but my remaining seti WU's 
do have the earliest deadline date out of my four projects.
As I only now have about 4.5 WU's to complete for seti, hopefully this will 
have rectified itself by the end of the day.
Usually I slow my processor slightly  to about 3/4 speed using my laptops 
power management software, as this runs the processor at about 60C under 
full load as opposed to about 82C when at full speed, but I'll crank it back 
up to get the work done :-)
Thanks for your help everyone, I'll see what happens later on when all seti 
WU's have been completed.

Paul