Short question: What happens in the case when an SMP WU is uploaded a few hours past the deadline?
Long explanation for short question:
So, I have brought a couple of new folders in at the office. One of these people is running a core duo laptop that never leaves its docking station... so I decided to the beta Windows SMP on there.
My policy is that the client does *not* run during the day; I have batch files and scheduled tasks that turn it off during work hours and on overnight. (This has turned out to be the best for me, because it does not cause fans to run noisily, nor does it make people wonder what those fah processes are that are running at 98% utilization on their CPU and therefore obviously causing their machine to bog down so could you please come and take it off now? I figure that ~14 hours of processing per machine per day over the long term is far better than 24 hours per day until they they get pissed off and disable it. )
Anyway... this laptop is not exactly a beast; it appears that in the 14 hours of processing it will crunch ~23.5% of a WU. Extrapolating, this means that if it happened to download a WU on Monday or Tuesday, then by the time the deadline hit (four days later) it would still be a couple percentage points short of completion. It should never take it more than 100 hours (from download) to complete a WU ... but that's still more than the 96 hours that F@h gives you.
Hence, the short question. TIA for any help.