Fairly frequent timeouts downloading workunits

[BOB850123]

I've recently been noticing that I fairly often have these timeouts attempting to download work units. This is new within the last week or so. Most units do succeed, and do so immediately. I've observed this across multiple systems, so feels like something on the server side or somewhere in between. Mostly just curious if this is a known issue or something others are encountering as well.

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08:56:49:I1:WU1660:Requesting WU assignment for user BOB850123 team 37726
08:56:49:I1:WU1660:Received WU assignment yl5AmVs9VnlDnz2fXc2HKytfl1RkbYXPm3VcBxCLww8
08:56:49:I1:WU1660:Downloading WU
08:56:51:I1:WU1660:Retry #1 in 2 secs
08:56:53:I1:WU1660:Downloading WU
08:56:56:I1:WU1660:Retry #2 in 4 secs
08:57:00:I1:WU1660:Downloading WU
08:57:02:I1:WU1660:Retry #3 in 8 secs
08:57:10:I1:WU1660:Downloading WU
08:57:12:I1:WU1660:Retry #4 in 16 secs
08:57:28:I1:WU1660:Downloading WU
08:57:30:I1:WU1660:Retry #5 in 32 secs
08:58:02:I1:WU1660:Downloading WU
08:58:05:I1:WU1660:Retry #6 in 1 min 4 secs
08:59:09:I1:WU1660:Downloading WU
08:59:11:I1:WU1660:Retry #7 in 2 mins 8 secs
09:01:19:I1:WU1660:Downloading WU
09:01:22:I1:WU1660:Retry #8 in 4 mins 16 secs
09:05:38:I1:WU1660:Downloading WU
09:05:40:I1:WU1660:Retry #9 in 8 mins 32 secs
09:14:12:I1:WU1660:Downloading WU
09:14:15:I1:WU1660:Too many retries (9), failing WU

[muziqaz]

Yes, everyone is encountering them. Dev is aware of this

[Wedge009]

Thanks for the confirmation. I was also wondering what was going on when I noticed 'warnings' against hosts in the GUI. I've noticed them in the last few days, presumably due to downloads ultimately being given up on. I understand the time-sensitive requirements of F@h meaning that only one WU at a time is distributed, but it's times like these that I appreciate the queued-buffer approach of BOINC infrastructure.