I suspended the other projects to get the Pirates WUs to work then, and not wait for the others to finish up. Once they start running, I resume the projects.
I set Pirates to a 1000 resource share with the other projects at 100. I was told that would help with getting Pirates with a full queue of other projects. Full meaning 1/2 to 3/4 of a day worth of WUs to run.
I just updated the "amount" of work from .25 days to 2 days. Maybe it would give me more than 1 WU per core each time I see it in my queue.
EDIT:
Just got 2 more WUs.
Do they always take about a minute to run [or is it just doing that now]?
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=boinc_status
is still showing the same figure of 8 WUs available, as it did the last time I posted a reply to this thread [above].