From my log:

15.02.2006 14:43:57|boincsimap|Sending scheduler request to http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap_cgi/cgi
15.02.2006 14:43:57|boincsimap|Reason: To fetch work
15.02.2006 14:43:57|boincsimap|Requesting 17 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 completed tasks
15.02.2006 14:44:02|boincsimap|Scheduler request to http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap_cgi/cgi succeeded
15.02.2006 14:44:02|boincsimap|No work from project
15.02.2006 14:44:02|boincsimap|Deferring scheduler requests for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
15.02.2006 14:45:02|boincsimap|Sending scheduler request to http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap_cgi/cgi
15.02.2006 14:45:02|boincsimap|Reason: To fetch work
15.02.2006 14:45:02|boincsimap|Requesting 575 seconds of new work
15.02.2006 14:45:07|boincsimap|Scheduler request to http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap_cgi/cgi succeeded
15.02.2006 14:45:07|boincsimap|No work from project
15.02.2006 14:45:07|boincsimap|Deferring scheduler requests for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
15.02.2006 14:46:10|boincsimap|Sending scheduler request to http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap_cgi/cgi
15.02.2006 14:46:10|boincsimap|Reason: To fetch work
15.02.2006 14:46:10|boincsimap|Requesting 925 seconds of new work
15.02.2006 14:46:25|boincsimap|Scheduler request to http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap_cgi/cgi succeeded
15.02.2006 14:46:25|boincsimap|No work from project
15.02.2006 14:46:25|boincsimap|Deferring scheduler requests for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
15.02.2006 14:47:25|boincsimap|Sending scheduler request to http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap_cgi/cgi
15.02.2006 14:47:25|boincsimap|Reason: To fetch work
15.02.2006 14:47:25|boincsimap|Requesting 1400 seconds of new work

You see, that the requested work changes with about the tenfold of the walltime. In the end the consequence was another batch for days crunchtime. This is with boinc 5.3.15.

Norbert

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