diff --git a/client/client_state.h b/client/client_state.h
index c1d00a8a27..4e8294762f 100644
--- a/client/client_state.h
+++ b/client/client_state.h
@@ -62,6 +62,12 @@ using std::vector;
 #include "../sched/edf_sim.h"
 #endif
 
+#define WF_EST_FETCH_TIME 180
+    // Figure that fetching work (possibly requesting from several projects)
+    // could take as long as this.
+    // So start work fetch this long before an instance becomes idle,
+    // in order to avoid idleness.
+
 // encapsulates the global variables of the core client.
 // If you add anything here, initialize it in the constructor
 //
@@ -589,7 +595,6 @@ extern THREAD throttle_thread;
     // don't fetch work from a project if it has this many runnable jobs.
     // This is a failsafe mechanism to prevent infinite fetching
 
-
 //////// CPU SCHEDULING
 
 #define CPU_SCHED_PERIOD    60
diff --git a/client/work_fetch.cpp b/client/work_fetch.cpp
index ff0ff06ecf..c574275628 100644
--- a/client/work_fetch.cpp
+++ b/client/work_fetch.cpp
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ RSC_REASON RSC_PROJECT_WORK_FETCH::compute_rsc_project_reason(
     // only fetch work if a device is idle
     //
     if (p->resource_share == 0 && rwf.saturated_time > WF_EST_FETCH_TIME) {
-        return DONT_FETCH_ZERO_SHARE;
+        return RSC_REASON_ZERO_SHARE;
     }
 
     // if project has excluded GPUs of this type,