The WU contuinues to process after the time remaining has reached zero. The gnfs are still running at full speed. The WU has checkpointed, and is not set to upload. (Progress is still at 0%, but I am not woried about that.)

Is this a problem WU, or is this normal?

The WU itself doesn't say that the time remaining is 0. It doesn't tell at all what the time remaining is. And even the Boinc manager doesn't tell such thing. Therefore I assume you use something different and this tells this stupid thing.

yoyo

I am using BOINC Manager to view active projects. The column remaining (estimated) is: "---". The gnfs are continuing to process and the elapsed time just continues to accumulate. I am wondering if this is normal, or am I in some sort of loop/error. Most other projects, if the actual time remaining is longer than originally estimated then the column increses as the task processes, not reduce down to nothing as it did here.

On the plus side, the task did checkpoint when it got to the end of the estimated time.

I've had a nother "F" file process and validate, so I don't think it has naything to do with the tweek for the smaller results files that you posted about.

When gnfs is still running, than everything is fine. The runtime of a workunit can not be estimated. It is between some minutes and 100h.

yoyo

when a task in the manager show time remaining '--' the boinc client start counting negative time. ie 60 seconds after the time remaining show '--' it is counted as -60 seconds or negative 60 seconds. this confuses the boinc client when doing the calculations as to how much work to request from the projects.
if a task has been setting at time remaining for 1 hour with '--' showing in the time remaining field than that counts as -3600 seconds.
adding up all the time remaining from all the tasks then subtracting the the total run time for the projects that show '--' will cause the boinc client work request to be higher than it should be, causing tasks to go into running, high pri... status. therefor missing deadline on other tasks for other projects.
keeping the time remaining above 2 minutes will keep the boinc client from requesting more work.
how you deal with this is up to you.

Toki nokori manējashōtaimu de tasuku' - ' fu no jikan o kaunto BOINC kuraianto o kaishi. 60-Byō nokori jikan shō no ato sunawachi' - ' soreha - 60-byō negatibu 60-byō to shite kaunto sa remasu. Purojekuto kara yōkyū suru yō ni hatarakuto dono kurai made no yōna keisan o jikkō suru toki ni, koreha BOINC kuraianto o konran sa seru. Tasuku ga tsuite iru 1-jikan no nokori jikan ni settei sa rete iru baai wa' - ' - 3600-byō to shite sono kaunto mo nokori jikan fīrudo ni hyōji. Tsugini shimesu purojekuto no sō jikkō jikan o hiita subete no tasuku kara nokori subete no jikan o tsuika shi, ' - ' ga BOINC kuraianto no shigoto no yōkyū wa tasuku ga, takai PRI o jikkō shite hairu koto o hikiokoshite, sore ga arubeki yori mo takaku naru yō ni narimasu ... Sutētasu. Sonotame, hoka no purojekuto no tame ni, hoka no tasuku ni kigen o yukue fumei. 2-Bu jōki no nokori jikan o hoji suru koto wa, yori ōku no sagyō o yōkyū surukara BOINC kuraianto o iji shimasu. Anata ga taisho hōhō kore wa anata shidaidesu.

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I can't handle this problem on the server side and in the app. The time remaining is not colculated by the yafu app. This is calculated by Boinc or Boinctasks (which does some other strange calculation).
Don't worry about deadlines. The server accepts also results if the are sent up to 10h after the deadline. Tasks which are not yet started by Boinc are aborted by Boinc.

yoyo