I have an OLD SLOW computer (Pen II 266) that I have been letting run projects with smaller work units. Every thing was fine until I updated to Ver. 5.4.11. Then it started downloading too much work. It will download months worth of work with deadlines of a few days. This happens on multiple projects. It looks like a scheduler problem and I was wondering if any one else had this problem and knew how to fix it.

Set that PC on a separate venue for all the projects you run on it and set the "connect to server" option for that computer to 0.01 days. That way you will get 1 result per project per however long it'll take it to crunch that project.

Let it run like that for a couple of weeks to months until it learns what Duration Correction Factor it should use and then you can gradually increase the queue size, if you want to.

BOINC learns slowly, from day to day, to week to week, to month to month.
Not immediately.

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Thanks for the info. I will try this and see what happens.

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OK, I understand you have lots of results already on this computer. You didn't say which project or projects it was running, but please follow this procedure:

Open BOINC Manager.
Projects tab.
Select the project.
Put it to No New Tasks.
Reset it.

Do this for all projects if you have more than one.

Then go to one major project and change the venue for that computer, change the settings in that venue, save the page with the button at the bottom.
To update it in Boinc Manager selecting that one project you just changed. Leave it on NNT, press Update, check in Messages if you have the new venue for this computer.

Set this project to Allow New Tasks.

If you have multiple projects, this venue is now propagating to your other projects, automatically. You can set the rest to Allow New Tasks as well.
So all you have to do is

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