An Einstein Schizoid Embolism?

Now here's the real question. How is it possible that you get WUs you haven't subscribed to?

Since joining Einstein I've had problems getting GW WU to run smoothly and reliably on just 1 of my WS. That HW config is:

• AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core Processor
• [2] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 
• Windows 10 Enterprise x64 Edition
• BOINC client version:7.16.11
• Memory:65460.88 MiB
• Air-cooled system
• Max CPU temp on all (24) cores at 100%, and all GPUs cores @100%, the avg is around 57C.
• I run my client with web-based profiles enabled.

I have other apps that task the HW just as much and they don't produce errors, Abode Premiere Pro for example runs all CPU and GPU cores @100% while rendering, sometimes for 6-8 hours, and never it craps out on me.

So I started trying to limit GW WUs from downloading, and the whole experience has been so frustratingly difficult I've considered, going to another project, which I don't want to do because I think this is seriously important cutting edge research. Rather than go through the lists of weirdness I've seen, I'll just address the current standing on this concern, which BTW, I have repeated a half dozen times over the last year with essentially the same outcome each time.

4-5 days ago, my current Profile was set to download 1.5 days of work for FGRP#5 and FGRPB1G#1 and had been doing so reliably for a couple of months. Then I tried again to tick GW O2 Multi-Directional GPU and Gravitational Wave search O3 All-Sky. When the WUs came down, there were in fact 7 days of work for each CPU/GPU core in my system, in other words, more than 4x what I asked for. And when they began running, all ran at High Priority immediately after downloading and the GPU WUs would only utilize 1 GPU, leaving the other idle. Then the time-outs and errors started, and because the existing WU in my local queue were displaced by the GW WUs downloaded, they were going to time out as well.

So I change my web profile back to FGRP#5 and FGRPB1G#1 only, aborted the GW WUs in the queue that had displaced everything else or they kept running at High Priority even though they say they had another 6 days until they expire, and waited for the client to update. When it did, it downloads only GW WUs and FGRP#5 WUs for CPUs, and again, gives me 7 days of WU's for each core when I only asked for 1.5.

I change my web profile to download 0.1 days of work and repeat the steps above. Finally, I get just 7 WUs at a time, but they are still GW WUs that are not checked in my web profile.

That was two days ago, Checking server status indicates there's plenty of FGRPB1G WUs that still need to be processed, I'm just not getting any of them. For whatever reason, Einstein keeps pushing GW WU's that are not ticked in my profile and if 10% of those are going to error out, or displace other WU's then I'd just as soon steer clear of them.

As I said earlier, I've tried the steps above many times over the last year and each time the outcome is about the same. I literally have to leave the project for a few weeks, let all WU's complete as they normally do, crunch numbers for some other project for a few weeks, then come back to Einstein and try again.

I'm an IT professional so I've tried a number of suggestions made on this site by others, and so far, nothing that works reliably every time. It's almost as though the WU sent my way are in fact, configured to run the way they do despite the settings I declare, either in the web profile or via an app_config.xml. 

The thing is, I don't want thousands of WUs when I only ask for a couple hundred, that run and then timeout or error out at the last minute. Nor do I want WUs to jump to running at High Priority as soon as they download. If I can't contribute WUs that get the job done accurately and "safely on my HW", what's the point in sharing my HW and compute cycles? And in case you're wondering, this is not about getting max credits in a race to get to the top, it's about getting reliable results consistently, and for reasons I have yet to figure out, GW WU's are problematic on my hardware and Einstein doesn't seem able to do the basic math necessary, to limit downloads to 1 day's worth of work. 

At one point in the past, while troubling shooting this issue, I set my web profile to download 4 days of work, when I checked on it the next day, I had enough WUs to run each CPU and GPU core for more than a month. There was something like 2,900 WUs downloaded, that's just nuts!! 

Maybe what I need at this point, is a nuclear option that zaps everything back to the beginning defaults and then some guidance on how to avoid falling into this dilemma again, if that's even possible. If so, I'm open to suggestions.