Couldn't agree more, it would be so nice that if the update button behaved like that and grabbed a workload based on our settings. Worst thing that happens is you grab too much work and things deadline.
i think what I'll do first is stop running it on the 24t machine and put it on a 8t machine which is significantly faster per core 3.9ghz over 2.9ghz of the 24t. Also this really isn't much of an issue other than when I'm trying to load up a bunker or grab a lot of work from a project that does limited/intermittent work.
Thanks for all the input. One could run atlas in a vm, if it were to have another instance of vbox installed in that vm? Even if this is doable, i don't think I would want to try it.