thunder7,
I believe it is part of the Boinc client code, which you could potentially get round if you compiled your own client. See this thread on the Boinc forum.
See also this FAQ on the WCG help pages which indicates that there is a (server-side?) limit per core.
Cheers,
Mark

Hi thunder7,
even with 6, 8, or 16 threads machines, and 2 day "large" buffer, my machines run regularly dry.
A couple of years ago, I planned to replace my oldest with more powerful machines and then came the migration to Krembil.
The poor motivation showed by the Krembil team causes that I did not invest anything until now. Why should I do it, if there is no WUs to crunch?
Just maintaining machines on-line "in case of" is simply wasting energy.
Krembil's behaviour is totally disrespectful to the WCG active members. At the end of the month, we have to pay the bill and the efficiency ratio (kW vs done work) since the move from IBM is definitively catastrophic.
My concern is that many people left. On my side, during the "best years" my contribution to my team was about 3%. Last week, even with my old poor performing machines, it was about 30%. In other words, many people left and the available computational power shrink dramatically.
This situation is also the reason for me to strongly limit my participation to the forum; it is simply completely demotivating and frustrating.
Cheers,
Yves

Exactly this in Bold above. Someone (luckily they're gone now) at IBM got butthurt with people talking the truth and put us in moderation...it is nonsense anymore!

Well, that note, was as I tried to make clear, directed at TigerLily directly, as the person who is moderating the forum.
And it is not about "moderation" of the whole forum or anyone at IBM (never had a problem to speak my mind when the project was under IBM, we all could just hope to have people like knreed and uplinger back on WCG Towers side).
It is rather about the fact that Cyclops got butt hurt a few months ago now, for calling him out about his lackluster response to problems, specially as two snowflakes among the members of the forum complained and reported such "insubordination" (and one of those, I had never seen before and have not seen since). Since then all my posts have to be released by the moderator, which while Cyclops was still "in charge", was at least within a day mostly. But now that TigerLily is running the show, things got even worse. Not only does it now take several days at times until my posts would be appearing on the forum, it is quite obvious that those are not even being read when I tried to point out impending problems. Several times now I had posted about problems with the web site/servers very early, before a lot of other people (and WCG obviously) take this serious. This has been commonly DAYS before there was any kind of response from WCG acknowledging any problem, each and every time after a post from some other forum member.
And now TigerLily has decided not only have my posts show up days late, no, anything critical to their absolutely lackluster communication performance, she is actively suppressing/censoring those posts by not letting them be posted on the forum. Well, for which she apparently had to read them. But then when asked to please stop this nonsense, those requests, directly addressed, are just being posted verbatim instead of taking note and removed.

This shows clearly the level of hypocrisy that seems to have taken hold at WCG Towers. On my part, this is the only way to reach someone at WCG, as their support email isn't working, since end of last year now! And I wouldn't be surprised that this general attitude from WCG Towers is rather detrimental to find anyone (person or organization) to provide the needed funds to improve the technical situation with the project. Who wants to put up money if this just seems to disappear into a big black whole?


Ralf

If the WCG team would tell us, why last weekend was totally dry of "new" work, and that only resends were available, it would leave no room for speculations. However, not a word so far this week, about that.

Tomorrow is Friday again. Let's see if my suspicions about how they handle sending out "new" tasks during weekends proves correct.