diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index ebc7fae919..12c4864b76 100644
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -4096,12 +4096,12 @@ David  13 July 2011
         trickle_credit.cpp
 
 David  13 July 2011
-	- manager: don't show "Estimated computation speed" in task properties
-		The quantity involved is not actually computation speed.
-		Also don't show Max RAM usage.
+    - manager: don't show "Estimated computation speed" in task properties
+        The quantity involved is not actually computation speed.
+        Also don't show Max RAM usage.
 
-	clientgui/
-		DltItemProperties.cpp
+    clientgui/
+        DltItemProperties.cpp
 
 David  13 July 2011
     - admin web: improve the FLOPs estimation tool so that
@@ -4136,3 +4136,10 @@ David  14 July 2011
     lib/
         cc_config.cpp,h
         cpu_sched.cpp
+
+David  14 July 2011
+    - client: if a project has zero resource share,
+        don't piggyback a work request onto a non-work-request RPC
+
+    client/
+        work_fetch.cpp
diff --git a/client/work_fetch.cpp b/client/work_fetch.cpp
index c9796d9890..4546c52447 100644
--- a/client/work_fetch.cpp
+++ b/client/work_fetch.cpp
@@ -829,6 +829,7 @@ void WORK_FETCH::compute_work_request(PROJECT* p) {
     clear_request();
     if (config.fetch_minimal_work && gstate.had_or_requested_work) return;
     if (p->dont_request_more_work) return;
+    if (p->resource_share  == 0) return;
     if (p->non_cpu_intensive) {
         if (!has_a_job(p)) {
             rsc_work_fetch[0].req_secs = 1;