Setting Boinc to NOT download WUs and it removes the instruction

BOINC users always forget an important BOINC feature and that is the REC or Recent Estimated Credit mechanism or algorithm that always runs in the client.

It tries to balance the awarded credit averages across all your projects.  So when you suspend a project for a while against your other projects that continue to run, when you restart your suspended project, that project owes a "credit debt" against your current running projects.

So the client will fetch as much work as allowed by your cache levels and immediately start to run that work to pay off the credit debt as soon as possible.

Only when the debt is paid will the project observe your project resource allotments.

What you can do to shorten the payment debt payoff period is to change the default client averaging period for REC in the cc_config.xml file.

Change this parameter down in the Options section from:

<rec_half_life_days>10.000000</rec_half_life_days> to:

<rec_half_life_days>1.000000</rec_half_life_days>

This will pay off the credit debt much sooner because it is averaging all projects credit accumulations over a single day instead of over 10 days.