You DL far more WUs than can be completed by their deadline. Sometimes I think this is a problem for new projects until BOINC learns how to estimate how long they take to run, although I have no idea how this is actually done. One of my computers got 999 WUs before I switched it to "No New Work." That's about 4,000 hours of work and even if I ran 35 of its 36 CPU threads on LODA they'd never finish before their one week deadline.

Some projects have a section in their Preferences where one can specify how many WUs a computer can have. The default values are 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 or unlimited. I recommend adding that feature but changing the pulldown menu to offer 0,1,2,4,8,16,32,64,256 or unlimited.

Thanks for the suggestion. Do you know where we can find out how to configure this in BOINC?

Another to consider implementing is to limit the number of WUs a computer can have to the number of CPU threads times an integer, e.g. 2t, 3t or 4t.
I don't know anything about the server side.

That would be a good idea! That way it would be easier to run LODA together with another project which uses less RAM making use of all cpu threads.

MAX_TASK_LIMIT

has to be set server-side

Where can I find the doocumentation of MAX_TASK_LIMIT?
Meanwhile, we are increasing the estimated FLOPS of WUs.