Viktors.....appreciate the input.

Those units were not acquired here......as you can see I am a WCG noob....but not new to Rosetta

As far as I am aware the units were perfectly normal and they processed without incident.

As has been stated, workunit files range from ~500k to ~1MB. There are no workunits larger than. If you are downloading anything larger, you are downloading the Rosetta application for some reason.

You can not tell by the size of the workunit file how long it will take. The calculation is non-deterministic, so we don't know how long any particular workunit will take until people start crunching it. We know that workunits with longer sequence lengths take longer than ones with shorter sequence lengths, but that's just a general rule.

This happens to us all. I have been getting a large number of small WUs. There have been no monster WUs (taking over 100 hours to crunch) for a while but I am sure they could come around again.

I have been using udmon on one PC without any problems since it became available for WCG. Are you using the -wcg option at startup ?

If you want to discuss more, drop me an email and we can always chat via IM.

If you use special tools to hold more than one work unit, please keep this to a minimum, otherwise some work unit results may arrive so late that the server has sent those work units to additional other devices, assuming your's might have dropped membership or something. Thus we end up spending more grid resources than needed on those work units. While you still get points for this work, it can sometimes be counterproductive for the project at large. We have some ideas for improving efficiency in the future, but for now, we cannot do much about this.