How many completed tasks does Boinc need to be able to estimate accurately?
Laptop drive died so replaced with bigger drive, recovery disks kept failing, so bye bye Windows. :-(
Installed Linux & decided to put Boinc back on it, ran WCG for a while & as the Seti closure caught me on the hop, reconnected to another one of the projects attached to.

D/L'ed 20 tasks on 29th Feb & 1st Mar (18 with a deadline of pm 6th & 2 am 7th} Laptop in use 5th & 6th dealing with other's computer issues & away from home, so Boinc suspended while on battery power. Re-enabling Boinc on getting home, noticed that the last for 6th will possibly time-out (it did, but only by 7.5 min) & that the 2 am 7th tasks will more than likely time-out as they were early am, so left it running overnight. 1 completed before deadline time the other timed out but completed 8.5 min after deadline. :-)

I have noticed that on both laptop & desktop the estimates on both have dropped by just over an hour.
Have no problems with running on the desktop, but attached to projects with short deadlines on the laptop, I feel may not be worthwhile if tasks time-out every so often, hence my question.

That depends wholly on the project and their ability to calculate the initial resource fpops estimate of the task. It helps if the project has just one kind of task with the same rsc_fpops_est, but it gets difficult when this value differs greatly from task to task. I'm not sure if there is a set number of tasks for this? But I could be mistaken.

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Thanks Jord.
Seeing this:

Fraction of time BOINC is running 67.38%

Led me to think it was down to Boinc. Laptop normally runs to 60-70%

Laptop normally runs to 60-70%

CPU time you mean?
Fraction of time BOINC is running 67.38% means the amount of time you actually run BOINC when the computer is on. Be glad with your more than positive value, mine is at Fraction of time BOINC is running 2.51% :)

It affects the amount of work it can fetch mostly, not the time it takes for that work to run. Or the amount of tasks it takes to get to the right guestimation of task length.

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I thought Seti was closing shop?
There have been a few projects lagging in PPD score update.
Like Einstein, Collatz, and a few others.
The only ones I'm running that show a score is
PrimeGrid, Asteroids, Moo!Wrapper, GPU Grid, and ODLK1.
Yesterday I saw only:
QChemPedIA, Prime, Universe, Yoyo,and moo.

I don't run all projects, but I don't see updates for the rest reflected (about a good 6+ projects)