Thank you all (again), for both your messages of support, and criticism.
I do recognise that there has been some frustration recently. I think this is mainly due to the increase in relative speeds of everyone else’s computers, for which I guess we should all be grateful. Hopefully we are all on the side of BOINC tho’ , in general. (And actually I am personally very grateful to Formula Boinc for bringing in some excellent crunching over the years).
With regard to the person who asked re cancelling current workunits: I’m not really planning to restart the server’s processing for a little while, to give the rate a chance to cool somewhat.
With regard to those of you seeking deadline extensions etc.: I’ve always believed that my project serves a role to hardware beta testers in providing a quick and easy validatory benchtest, so I actually prefer a quick turnaround ( tho I could be imagining that The same argument applies, with varying reasoning, to still having fairly short workunits, which I, and a number of others since the start of the project, have said they liked. Conceivably I made a small mistake releasing ARM apps which run somewhat slower , reducing the scope for increasing wu length, but I think on balance this added to the project (and the ARM chips continue to improve in speed )
If you all become enough of a pain protesting ( ) , or if my trusty little server does eventually bite the dust, then hopefully I will upgrade at some point [though I haven’t really done any live speed comparisons with my replacement candidate servers, so I don’t know exactly how much faster they would be], but in the meantime please recognise that 1) I am obviously always very grateful to any and all of you who have given me constructive crunching over the years, but that 2) I am just one person and operating on a limited budget.
On a constructive note: I refer you (once again) to the thread I linked to above, in case anybody feels like branching out in pursuit of these Mersenneplustwo factors!