I have the following in my message log.

5/09/2008 9:43:00 PM|rosetta@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 190 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
5/09/2008 9:43:05 PM|rosetta@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
5/09/2008 9:43:05 PM|rosetta@home|Message from server: No work sent
5/09/2008 9:43:05 PM|rosetta@home|Message from server: (won't finish in time) Computer on 99.8% of time, BOINC on 100.0% of that

I only have 2 WU's in hand and both have a deadline of 12/09/2008 9:21:16 PM

Any ideas what it means?

If you also run other projects, that would explain why it only requested 190 seconds of work. It basically means BOINC is planning to spend much of the coming days working on the other projects. If those projects don't happen to have work for you, then BOINC will try Rosetta again later and get work.

If those projects do have work for you, BOINC will crunch on them for a while, and later come back to Rosetta. It's all based on the resource shares you have allocated between the projects, and BOINC's estimates and expiration dates.

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If you also run other projects, that would explain why it only requested 190 seconds of work. It basically means BOINC is planning to spend much of the coming days working on the other projects. If those projects don't happen to have work for you, then BOINC will try Rosetta again later and get work.

If those projects do have work for you, BOINC will crunch on them for a while, and later come back to Rosetta. It's all based on the resource shares you have allocated between the projects, and BOINC's estimates and expiration dates.

Aahh.. Thank you. That explains it.

I looked back further and found another instance of the same messages, both occurred immediately after a failed request for new work from SETI.

This computer crunches SETI with Rosetta as an automatic backup project.
Resource share is 100/1 in favour of SETI.

It is obvious now that BOINC correctly decided that at my resource share ratio any more work would not be completed within deadlines (without running in panic mode)

Bruce

Exactly. Using your 1% resource share, the work won't get done in time. However, if you complete the Rosetta tasks you have, and are still without SETI work, then you will get Rosetta tasks.

...so the solution here is to reverse your resource shares between the two projects. Then you'll never see this message from the Rosetta server again ;)

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense