Guess you misunderstood. I have no problem getting new work units, but reporting completed work units.

Thanks Jim

Nope, I didn't misunderstand :-)

BOINC will only report finished results when it either has to request new work (and this is where my 2 reasons kick in) or when the workunits are close to the expiration date. The purpose of this setting is to reduce server connects.

Two possible reasons I could think of :


1. In the BOINC version I'm using, a project will load fresh WUs only when it's completely empty when a different project (usually CPDN) is running as the second task, isn't allowed to load new WUs and piles up long term debits.


2. the project that doesn't update so often has very long WUs (e.g. QAH)

In this case, when BOINC detects a cache underrun it will ask for example 1000 seconds of work but receive 70.000 instead.

That means that the next cache underrun can only happen when 69.000 seconds of work are "used up".

For some reason one of my computers only updates and sends completed date once or twice a day. Or when I manually do it.

You mean they stay in "ready to report"? Why do you want it to do it faster? Once a day is enough. You don't win anything by reporting them as soon as they finish.