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Hey everyone, sorry for my absence in the last week or so, my life is crazy lately and I have very limited free time (if any 😆) 

 

I see a lot of you had some sync issues, well turns out I had the same issues lately. I've opened up my 8444 port in my router and that seemed to have helped a lot (I sometimes had like 1 peer. but now it's never less than 20-30). As tjb_altf4 said, 1.1.6 was released and It confirmed that there was some issues in the network itself. Personally, all my problems went away with this upgrade, so I suggest anyone with sync problems to at least do the port forward and the upgrade to 1.1.6 and test again. Don't forget to disable upnp if you do the port forward.

 

I see also a few requests about adding some things (like swar manager) to this Docker, sadly as I mentioned earlier this is not something I can do unless I make my own docker image. This unraid template is for the official docker image and I have no plan (nor the time) to create a new one, so don't expect this to change. Any issues regarding the docker itself should be directed towards the official Chia-Docker github. That being said, any request to the unraid template I have no problem of doing/adding.

 

On another note, @guy.davis released a promising docker to CA called Machinaris, It brings plotman and a webgui to the official docker, I suggest anyone who is interested in this to take a look.

 

I've personally began using swar plot manager in the official docker so I will definitely take a look at Machinaris.

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17 minutes ago, Darryn said:

Thanks to Partition Pixel for the effort to get this working and to the rest of the community for their in put.

 

I am note sure if I missed this somewhere, but if someone could point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it.

 

I am currently plotting to an unassigned device and it seems to be working fine.

I want to start a 2nd (parallel) plot, but with a different temp directory (on a different unassigned device), but the same final temp directory.

How would I go about doing this?

I assume that I would have to create another path, pointing to the 2nd temp directory?

Then, how do I start the docker to plot to the new temp directory?

 

At present, I am opening the docker console and then starting the plot from there.

Is there a better way of doing this?

 

Thank you ! And indeed thanks for everyone that is contributing and helping.

You caught me before going to bed 😉

 

You are correct, you will need to add another path for the second temp directory. Let's say you called it plotting2 and that this plotting2 folder is pointing to your 2nd unassigned device. You can then start some plots with this as your plotting temp folder

 

venv/bin/chia plots create -b 5000 -r 2 -n 1 -t /plotting2 -d /plots

 

And some others with your first unassigned device (let's assume it's named plotting1 ) :

venv/bin/chia plots create -b 5000 -r 2 -n 1 -t /plotting1 -d /plots

 

At the moment there is no better way than with the console for this docker (or via the tmux console, see OP for details on this)

 

EDIT: The template variable would look like this :

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10 minutes ago, bnevets27 said:

Dumb question? So I ran the command to start 3 plotting tasks, one in each window of tmux. Great, all worked, got 3 plots. I expected it to start a new plot after finishing, it apparently does not. So I would have to run the command again. Obviously it doesn't make sense to manually start a plotting task, so how does one make sure a new plot starts after the last one finishes?

 

What you are describing to me is queuing plotting. What you did is you ran 3 plots in parallel. When you do this command, n is the number of plots you want to queue :

venv/bin/chia plots create -b 5000 -r 2 -n 1 -t /plotting/plot1 -d /plots

 

If you want to start plots after plots, you need to queue plotting, for exemple :

venv/bin/chia plots create -b 5000 -r 2 -n 5 -t /plotting/plot1 -d /plots

☝️This will do 5 plots one after the other, but NOT at the same time. If you want to do multiple plots at the same time, you have to start multiple tabs like you did. So you could do three process of this command (with n=5), and that would enable you to do 3 plots at a time, 5 times in a row !

 

11 minutes ago, Trinity said:

if that will help, I will do that. is it enough to just set the INFO level or do I need to adjust anything on the container?

 

After setting it to INFO you will need to restart the docker for it to take effect. Anything else is optional (making it stdout to the console ui of unraid is optional, but if you want to do it see OP)

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On 5/10/2021 at 10:04 PM, danktankk said:

I did everything remotely from my phone. Changing it back to /root/.chia does make the logfile appear now.   I have no idea why and wish that wasn't the case, but it did work.  Thank you for the help!  

 

Is there anyway that /root/.chia can be altered in a  future update?  I prefer using /config...  Not a deal breaker obviously ☺️

Unfortunately I'm not 100% sure why at the moment either, I'd need to investigate a bit but I already have my hands full with work and answering questions 😆, I'll try to see once I have some time

 

On 5/11/2021 at 1:17 AM, Micro553 said:

Why is my /plots dir not working 


Getting ths in log: Plots directory appears to be empty and you have not specified another, try mounting a plot directory with the docker -v command
Added plot directory "/plots".

The chia_stor is a shared folder on the array set to not use the cache. And chia_plots is a folder in the folder. 

 

I quess I´m stuupid but can´t understand why its not moving plots from /plotting to /plots

 

The plots are moved to /plots only when they are finished. This process can take a few hours, are you waiting long enough ?

 

On 5/11/2021 at 12:20 PM, rangusT said:

Are people storing their plots on storage that's part of the array or on unassigned devices? 

 

Both work, you can add multiple plots directories if needed. In my case I'm using the array and I have good challenge time for my plots (less than 1 second).

 

On 5/11/2021 at 8:15 AM, Pixel5 said:

im currently doing nothing with my Chia install on my unraid system and its basically pegging the CPU at 100% is this because its syncing or is something wrong here?

 

 

I'm guessing it's the syncing but hard to say didnt check my cpu usage when it was still getting synced. Do you still have this issue ?

On 5/11/2021 at 8:18 AM, Gnomuz said:

Hi,

 

Thanks for the template, I was waiting for it because my full node is on a Raspberry Pi4 and everything works fine, but harvesting from the Pi on an Unraid Samba share was just awful from a performance standpoint, especially while a new plot was being copied to the array (I saw response times beyond 30 seconds!).

Now I run only a harvester in the container, and response times are more in the milliseconds range ! By tweaking config.yaml it's easy to connect the container harvester to the full node, after having generated keys for the harvester with chia init -c /path/to/full/node/certs (see https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/Farming-on-many-machines for more details).

I just have a silly issue, the container seems to default to a generic "Europe" timezone, and timestamps are off by two hours with my local time in France. I added a "TZ" variable set to "Europe/Paris" to the template, but that changed nothing.

I installed tzdata inside the container and dkpg-reconfigure tzdata to Europe/Paris, it's fine now, but obviously it's not a persistent solution.

I would really prefer to have consistent timestamps in logs between the various machines (harvester container, full node, plotting machines).

Thanks in advance for any guidance.

 

PS : of course, my Unraid host is in my timezone 

 

I can see why that could be frustrating. I'm not seeing anything in the config.yml file to change this sadly, and the docker itself is out of my reach (since it's the official one). One solution could be making your own docker and adding this in the dockerfile so that way it will always have this inside once it's built. Other than that I would suggest making a user script to add this when your docker restarts (or with a schedule, something along those lines)

 

On 5/11/2021 at 9:30 AM, adminmat said:

I have this up and running although I didn't use the CA template.  I have a few questions:

 

- How do I view logs? and how do I view progress of ongoing plotting?

- when i do a:

 

I get:

 

 

Why is the Blockchain Status not synced? Do i have to open a port on my router or forward a port to this Docker container?

 

 

To view logs, read my original post (it will guide you to the correct folder). To view progress of ongoing plotting I would suggest using tmux (see my OP). It says not synced because it is still syncing, you can see the current block height and target block height that it is trying to reach at the moment.

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13 minutes ago, Trinity said:

 

Thank you, for the answer
Right now everything is out of sync, I don't understand, what is happening there, all I do is plotting and here and there call chia farm summary, chia show -s -c and chia wallet show. Suddenly everything stopped syncing and there are so many entries inside the debug.log - I'll wait for the plots to finish, then I will restart the container and clear the log, to get only new entries to narrow it a little more down and when it fails again, I'll provide my log here.
Could there by anything inside it, which could leak anything sensitive of my system?

 

Not that I am aware of, of course I don't know what's inside since it's not my docker (it's the Chia team's docker) so hard to say, for your logs if you don't already have debug level set to INFO that would help the debugging !

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8 minutes ago, Trinity said:

And if it's not synced, what could I do to fix it?
I was in sync with the node quite some time and it was farming, but the wallet was out of sync and now everything is not synced anymore. I didn't touch anything, any idea what could be the problem and how to solve it?

Your node and wallet are not synched or only the wallet ? Either way I can't say with no other information, we would need to see your logs

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On 5/12/2021 at 5:29 AM, Phil85 said:

When the 12TB HDD is full with 120 plots. Get i also rewards when i not plotting, because i cant plott when the drive is full.

And what is with the ssd. When the hdd is full, i dont need it anymore ?

When the hdd is full i can only farming is this right. And how can i get rewards with this

Sorry for the questions but I dont understand the process at the time 😇

 

Plotting does not give you any reward. How you gain rewards is when you are farming. To farm, you need plots, and to have plots you need to be plotting of course. The more plots you have, the better the chances of winning. So once your HDDs are full, the only thing you have to do is keep farming and you will still be trying to earn rewards. Of course, the network space will continue to grow so you will have less and less chances to win if you stop making plots.

 

On 5/12/2021 at 5:44 AM, Jimpy said:

Has anyone found a good way to view the plotting process if you accidentally close the terminal?  I messed around with strace but couldn't get it to work.  If this isn't possible, what's the next best option?  Enabling logging after this plot finishes?

 

 

I suggest you try to do this (from user ropes) :
 

Quote

 

This is how I monitor my farm.

If you guys install the nerd pack from community applications, then navigate to nerd pack under settings, install tmux.

Now launch the unraid terminal & run tmux, then you can have multiple (tabbed) terminal windows in one window. I have 1 tab per plot & can jump around them as needed.

 

Also you can close the terminal window & relaunch your session by running tmux again from the terminal. Also works across different devices or applications, so you can ssh in from your phone or putty etc & just run tmux again & you will be able to see those other terminal windows.

 

Hope this help

 

 

On 5/12/2021 at 11:26 AM, Dynizzle said:

Looking for some advice. My current Unraid array already has 36 drives so its at the Unraid capacity for drives. I have an additional 12 drives that I'm looking to use only for Chia plots that are sitting in my unassigned drives. I either was thinking of passing them all through as individual plot locations to the container (creating a separate parameter for each, etc.) or passing them all through to a VM. I am just looking to run the full node and harvester on my unraid server and have my other servers be plotting and moving to the plot locations.

My two concerns I have is how the plotters on my other servers will know which drive has free space out of the 12 and managing those sound like a pain. I was considering using Stablebit DrivePool in a windows VM to have all the drives balanced and accessible from a single share and have the full node and harvester running on the same windows VM. That way my plotters will only need to write to a single share.

 

What would you guys do with this setup?

 

Hmm that's a very good question. I only have 10 devices in my array right now so I don't have any experience regarding this. I don't have another solution that the one you're describing, except maybe starting a second server but I understand the $$$ aspect involved lol. If anyone else has an idea that'd be great. Just saying this so you know I didn't skip over your question !

 

8 hours ago, Trinity said:

I think I figured it out, so it's up and running again. The only thing remaining is, that the wallet always shows: Not synced
Node is fully synced, farmer is running... But the wallet just refuses to sync. Is this a docker issue, an unraid issue or a chia network issue? As far as I understand, without a synced wallet you wont win anything ever.

Does nobody else got this issue?

 

If you are farming and plotting correctly I think you will still be able to earn chia. It's just that you won't be able to see it on your wallet since it's not synched (that is until it is synched). That seems weird if everything else is correct, can you show us what your logs looks like ?

 

On 5/12/2021 at 2:41 PM, pr85 said:

Hi everyone,

 

Finally got this container up and running, but I have what seems like a stupid question. I have run the following command to start a plot:

chia plots create -b 5000 -r 2 -n 1 -t /plotting/plot1 -d /plots

 

Let's say I have to restart Unraid or the container. How would I farm plots that have already finished plotting?

 

If the plotting process is truly finished, you will see them in your whatever your /plots folder is. You only need to start the docker and as long as it has farming enabled, it will start farming on it's own from these plots. You can see it with 'venv/bin/chia farm summary'. It will tell you how many plots are farming.

 

16 hours ago, live4soccer7 said:

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. I added my mnemonic phrase through chia keys add, however I still get this for the wallet.

 

 

if I do chia wallet show it shows stuff about my wallet and also provides the fingerprint id as well.

 

if i run: chia start farmer it stays that everything is already running.

 

I'm just a bit confused by the wallet exception and the connection error. Any insight on this?

 

On top of what Cloggerdude said, if you just started the docker for this first time you have to give it some time to let it sync. Once it's fully synched then I suggest you worry about the wallet, not before.

 

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7 hours ago, adminmat said:

When i run a chia farm summary it returns Farming status: Farming.

And chia show -s -c returns Current Blockchain Status: Full Node Synced.

chia wallet show returns Sync status: Synced

 

Does this mean that I'm properly connected to the "netspace"? even though I have not opened any ports on my router.
 

 

Yes that should mean that you're good to go, I didnt need to open any ports either. If you check your logs you will see more info on what's happening (and even more if you change the default logs settings, more on that on the topic post)

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Sorry for everyone I've been super busy with work in last few days and had quite a few emergencies to fix lol.

 

Here's a few new things I've seen on the chia scene :

 

new faucet website for chia : https://chia.togatech.org/

Here's a link to one of the first legit soon to be chia pool : https://pool.space/ (you can join the discord for more info atm)

 

6 hours ago, guy.davis said:

 

First off, a big thanks @Partition Pixel for getting the official Docker image added to Unraid as an application! Plotting is good fun, but tricky to get going well.  

 

@Footlocker_ Yes, Plotman is great!  In fact, I am working on a single Docker image that includes this official docker image along with Plotman and a basic Web UI, all wrapped up as an Unraid application template. Right now, the Plotman CLI is invokable via the container CLI, but I hope to wire control into the Web UI shortly.  

 

The primary goal is to make plotting on Unraid as easy as the official Windows GUI application.  I've called it Machinaris and it's available for early beta testing now.  I'm using it for plotting on Unraid 6.9 and welcome anyone interested in trying the beta and helping out with the project.   

 

As you an see below, I'm just starting out too and still a member of 0 XCH gang.  Plot on!

 

Thanks,

Guy 

 

I'm very interested in your Docker, looking forward to it ! Do keep us in the loop 😃

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3 minutes ago, danktankk said:

my config does havce the leading `/` in it.  Im not sure where you saw that it didnt?

 

Im not sure how to use /root/.chia for appdata or where it would be moved to.  I am not that great with unraid.

 

saw it here lol :

 

You don't really need to change anything on the unraid share side, your appdata is still going to be in /mnt/user/appdata/chia, it's just that the container will have it called '/root/.chia' for itself. Then you'll have to change other place where you used /config for /root/.chia (like for the mnemonic), After that I'm betting it will work if you change your log host folder for /mnt/user/appdata/chia/mainnet/log

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6 minutes ago, danktankk said:

 

Try this in your Host Path for logs

/config/mainnet/log

instead of

config/mainnet/log

(missing first /).

 

If that still doesnt work I would try going back to the /root/.chia for your appdata

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2 minutes ago, danktankk said:

I dont see it anywhere.  i added more to my initial statement as well with an edit

 

Can I see your appdata value in the template ? Just wanna be sure I'm getting this right

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20 minutes ago, danktankk said:

 

I cant get a logfile to show up no matter what.  In windows it logs without anything but a plotter running

 

Just did a re read of what you said and if your appdata container path is in /config, it's possible there is some confusion with the /config folder inside of the chia appdata. Check if there's any log file in chia/config. Other than that the only difference I have with you is the appdata location (mine is /mnt/user/appdata/chia ) 🤔

 

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10 hours ago, tjb_altf4 said:

Out of the box this docker isn't configured optimally for logging, after some research these are two changes I've made to get better logging.

Both changes are made to the config.yaml file that will be in chia's appdata folder:

1. change log_level to INFO (from WARNING) 
2. change log_stdout to true (from false)

Change one adds more useful info to the logs, change two pushes the logs to the standard docker logging mechanism, which means it is visible from the GUI's log button.

 

Happy hunting!

 

Awesome find ! I'm putting this on the topic post.

 

3 hours ago, luixmod said:

Connection error. Check if farmer is running at 8559

i am getting this error and dont farme, i need to open this door on the router? he makes the sync and de plot fine.
 

 

I'm not seeing anything about opening port 8559 online (only port 8444). Maybe you already have something running on port 8559 ?

 

1 hour ago, burgess22 said:

Yeah if you leave it off will get latest and then you can put other versions like :1.1.14 in if you don't want docker to update like my mariadb they are changing to alpine or something soon so I'll leave it locked on the version running ATM until I can work out how to update without breaking stuff 😂

 

Yeaah I knew about other versions, I just wasnt sure how unraid knew if there was another version available, but :latest it is of course. Oooh very good to know I'll probably do that I'm using that docker for a few things lol

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4 minutes ago, danktankk said:

 

I have appdata Container Path: set as /config  and Host Path: set as /mnt/user/appdata/chia 

 

However, I did try it adding the path your way and I still am not getting a debug.log file in the default location of /mnt/user/appdata/mainnet/log/debug.log

 

I am only using this to make plots so maybe that is why?

 

Oh I see, then yes I think this is possible, didnt test with only harvester but that might be the case ! Do you have any debug.log file at all in your mainnet/log/ ? If not then I guess that's the case

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5 minutes ago, danktankk said:

 

I changed the URL to an Image.  Try to refresh the page?

 

`  logging: &id001
    log_filename: /log/debug.log
    log_level: INFO
    log_maxfilesrotation: 7
    log_stdout: false`

 

The config yml seems good, now for the path on the docker template if you want the path you gave me earlier your 'Host Path' should be '/mnt/user/appdata/logs/' or '/mnt/user/appdata/chia/mainnet/log/' for the default one

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20 hours ago, ozzylins said:

That´s the problem,... I don´t know what I am doing.. lol    

 

Is there a real newbie tutorial to farm with docker on unraid?  I volunteer to be the "lab rat" of such topic...  = ) 

 

Found this https://pythonawesome.com/a-cross-platform-plot-manager-for-chia-plotting/,  perhaps "we" could create a docker for it... 

 

It's the same as farming with the command line on any OS, I suggest you take a look at things like these if you want to grasp the basics (it can help that he is using the interface, then afterwards you can search for the actions he is doing on the interface but with the command line) :

 

 

18 hours ago, equipped said:

When the docker updates on github will it update automatically if we re-install the docker?

 

Yes it should have an update pending for you if didnt already by now, if not force update the docker

 

16 hours ago, gandalf15 said:

I tried to run it, since I have a Windows Chia client in the same network I tried to change the port to 8445. But somehow it always adds it anyway as 8444. And therefor it doesnt work.

Anyone knows how to fix it?

 

How did you try to change the ports ? Through the unraid docker template and/or though the config.yml ?

 

12 hours ago, Dschijn said:

Any idea how to trigger the Chia Docker to sync the blockchain? I did sync for more than 1 day and is now at a different netspace as my Windows PC. Also the Docker gives the status not synced as the blockchain status.

 

You still got problems ? I think it might have been the hotfix of yesterday, try to update your docker and see if that changes anything...

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1 minute ago, danktankk said:

 

Thank you for the reply.  I have tried everything you have there already.  At this point I don't mind it going to the default location.  I just need the log files.   I also added the leading `/` in the yaml file as well.

 

Here is my path setup for it:

 

https://xbackbone.dankk.io/lesu8/geWIcAMa55.png

 

I have also tried `log_stdout` both true & false

 

Any other ideas?  Many thianks!

 

Can't see your url (it says access denied) 😢 log_stdout must be false otherwise it won't work (it will write to the console instead of the file), other than that you need to restart your docker after making the changes in the config.yml. It is very important that the container path value be '/log' with no S (unless you put one in the config.yml). Other than that it should work ! Don't hesitate if you still have problems

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20 hours ago, danktankk said:

How do we map log files to say.... /appdata/logs for this container?

 

the template doesnt appear to have any way to see or route them

 

I'm adding this to the template right now,

 

If you want to add it manually, do the following (create a new path and type this):

 

 

I didnt test it but I don't see why it wouldnt work, feel free to report back ! (testing on my side now)

 

Edit: managed to make it work, but I also had to change something in the config.yml :

 

You will need to add the first '/' before the 'log/debug.log'

 

Don't know if there's another way without modifying the config.yml but I this is how I managed to make it work (got limited time can't check any further)

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7 minutes ago, tjb_altf4 said:

@Partition Pixel it should be:

 

ghcr.io/chia-network/chia:latest

 

I updated yesterday, and I'm currently on 1.1.6.dev0 according chia version

You should only need to press the check for updates button on docker page, if you want to force a check

 

Thank you ! Safely ignore my comment then 😆 everything is good, and I also didnt even know about the check for updates button as I never had to update in a hurry lol I feel dumb ! 😩

 

Edit: I'm reading that not writing :latest just implies :latest by default so I guess I prefer it this way it's shorter

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Hey all, before I answer questions I just wanted to say this, for me the update is now visible in unraid :

 

 

However I think I made a mistake and I had to change something first (I'm not 100% sure, if someone could confirm for me that'd be great), it is fixed in the template now but for those of you who already had it installed you may the need to change something first (sorry this is my first unraid docker template).

 

That something is this :

to this:

(So juste remove the ':latest')

 

If someone that still has the ':latest' could confirm that the update is not visible (or that it is) with me that would be great !

 

This is the reported version once updated (before that it was 1.1.5.dev0) :

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8 hours ago, jollymonsa said:

My issues may also be your issues, CHIA is currently out of sync, some sort of a hotpatch is in the works as I type that will address this issue.

 

 

 

My issues may be related.

 

Yes I think they released 1.1.5 for this (https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/releases/tag/1.1.5), the docker version should come along soon enough

 

5 hours ago, Micro553 said:

Finally got it working and its plotting. 

However when setting it up with the guide on reddit it was pointed out that one needed to open port 8444 

Do I really need that? 

Thanks. 

 

 

Some people need to open the port on their router, some don't, if you needed it to make things work it's possible and fine (imo)

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9 hours ago, Pixel5 said:

People probably should look into this video here to see which SSD they wanna assign to this and if they are willing to basically destroy it withing a few weeks.

 

TL:DW is Chia takes considerably more power to run then the marketing makes it seem its by no means a "green" crypto and within just one week of farming it wrote 50TB to the SSD which was for his higher end SSD 3% of the rated TBW so within less then a year that SSD will be hitting its TBW limit

 

 

Agreed for the SSD life, this is something everyone should be aware of, and it is documented on the chia wiki as well (see : https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/SSD-Endurance)

 

One thing I'd like to say tho, is that you are not going to plot forever, unless you have unlimited storage. Once all your HDD are filled with plots, your SSD is not gonna have any more wear and this is where the crypto becomes green, compared to proof of work where you will always be working no matter what.

Once that happens, your processor, ram, and SSD are not really used anymore (barely). Your disks are gonna be spun up once in while when you have some plots passing filter.

For SSD life, In general, it takes about 1.8 TBW per plot, and my consumer SSD are warranted until they reach 600 TBW, but I am aware of that and I will not reach 600 because my storage is soon all filled up. It really depends on the use case I would say.

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19 hours ago, ozzylins said:

HI guys, tks for the docker... Just installed yesterday.. I´m still a big noob with all linux based tech, but I think its working...  just wondering if any GUI for the docker it´s the "new feature´s" list.. 

 

BTW I did the Htop thing and my top processes are:

 

best regards

 

If you're not plotting I think this is what is expected to see

 

14 hours ago, ropes said:

This is how I monitor my farm.

If you guys install the nerd pack from community applications, then navigate to nerd pack under settings, install tmux.

Now launch the unraid terminal & run tmux, then you can have multiple (tabbed) terminal windows in one window. I have 1 tab per plot & can jump around them as needed.

 

Also you can close the terminal window & relaunch your session by running tmux again from the terminal. Also works across different devices or applications, so you can ssh in from your phone or putty etc & just run tmux again & you will be able to see those other terminal windows.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Brilliant this is definitely the way, I'll update the original post with this info !

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44 minutes ago, joker_927 said:

Putting the mnemonic pass phrase in a plain text file seems really risky...

 

I just want to plot, so my situation might be a rare, but for anyone like me you can get your farmer and pool keys using this command:

 

chia keys show

 

And then you can plot using the following command:

 

chia plots create [other plot options] -f <farmer key> -p <pool key>

 

Agreed. I don't like it either, it's just not secure. I'm, hoping a better way to authenticate is in the works. At least for me, right now, I have no chia to loose lol.

I didnt know about this for plotting only, thanks for bringing it up I'll put it in the original post so that those who want to harvest only can have a more secure experience !