Short deadlines

My current Einstein work unit, which I got this evening when I finally got boinc working on the second server, shows 108:59:35 minutes to complete, and a deadline of 8/26 8:54pm. Einstein is one of two secondary projects, configured to get 25% of the resources. Just arithmetically, this does *NOT* look good; in fact I'm surprised the scheduler allowed it.

It's possible this is a case of the early part of the work unit moving very slowly, causing a gross overestimate of time to completing, of course. Otherwise, it seems to me that the deadlines are unreasonably tight. This is certainly a slow machine -- dual processor 200MHz Pentium Pro. And old server, still being used as a server for my home web and misc. hosting.

Regardless of deadline issues, it seems like workunits over 100 hours are just too damned big. Sometimes the problem doesn't chunk smaller well, I know, but it's still a problem. The global climate predication people are *much* worse; I'm not even *trying* to run them on anything except the new, fast, desktop (which is an illustration of one of the problems; fewer people will run big workunits at all, let alone to completion).