What are these red 'Assign Wait' items?

[InfiniteHench]

Ever since I updated to 8.4.9, I usually have an extra red item named 'Assign Wait' to my folding list. It has a red time icon and a red progress bar, and the Work Details screen doesn't display anything about it (sorry I can't upload images here for some reason).

Progress usually completes faster than the standard green 'Running Project' items. What are these? Are they ok for me to run? They repeat over and over. Seems weird.

[calxalot]

Check the log.
I think it’s usually an exponential back off wait to retry when no work is available for your configuration.

[InfiniteHench]

This is interesting, since I already have a line that is running an active task. But I have a second line with these red 'Assign Wait' tasks that seem to go faster than my typical, actual green tasks.

These are strange and never appeared before 8.4.9. Are the red Assign Wait tasks ok? Is something wrong with my PC or my account? Can I keep folding with green tasks coming in? This is all kind of confusing.

[muziqaz]

Wait assign messages are just warnings that you are not getting any work. Depending on the hardware you might not get work all the time. Color of the message is just visual aid for people to notice that there is an error or a warning

[PaulTV]

This situation - waiting for a new assignment - could happen in v7 as well, it just didn't show like this. Instead the v7 client would show as a green status 'ready' (I believe).