Bozo wrote:ok makes sense - I thought it would be something like that - just didn't realise that there would be such a limited number of WU's available.
Two points here.
A) The number of Projects for a specific type of client should not be confused with the number of WUs.
For example, Serverstat shows that currently, the classic WUs are being assigned from two servers
143.89.28.72
171.67.108.33
(There are other servers that have WUs, but in one brief snapshot, I don't see any current activity on them.)
According to Psummary,
30399 WUs are available on 171.67.108.33 from (at most) 37 projects worth either 69 (by far the most common value), 145, or 209 points
and
50972 WUs are available on 143.89.28.72 from (at most) 13 projects worth 825, 1012, 1020, 1026, 1022, or 1030 baseline points.
Presuming that there is some variation in project priority, it's not unlikely that a lot of people running a Uniprocessor core are getting 69 point WUs most of the time.
B) It's in the best interests of FAH to have about the same number of WUs for higher priority projects as there are folks ready and willing to process them. That's never an exact match, of course, but too few higher priority tasks means that some percentage of lower priority tasks are being worked on and that more high priority tasks could be processed if they were available (which isn't all bad). What is often overlooked, however is that an excess of higher priority WUs means they sit idle on the server, waiting for someone to process them, and that slows down those projects which is certainly not good.
