I'm on a dial-up line, and would sometimes like to leave town for the weekend. The boinc client assumes that whatever I set my "connect interval" to, it needs to have work finished that much ahead of deadline to be sure the results get reported in time. Given that the last WU queued up at my system will not even be started until all the WUs ahead of it on the ready queue have been completed, the significant "queue size" I specify (to cover those weekends), plus a short deadline, combine in my circumstances to make the boinc client panic.

I could see the need for a seven-day deadline for Rosetta while doing work for CASP. But is the project __still__ under that kind of time pressure? If the scientific work Rosetta is currently performing does not depend upon seven-day (i.e., short) turnaround times, PLEASE -- out of consideration for project participants who are on dial-up connections, would you please instead set the Rosetta work deadlines to eight (or even better, ten) days.

Thanks.
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https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=2236#25839

That was recently asked in the "out of work" thread.

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