Partition Pixel

Haha right 😆I'm almost tempted myself. Very nice, thanks for the infos I'm gonna look more into this for sure, I wanna be ready to do massive plotting by the time we have to replot for pools. That's a pretty cool idea. I agree that maybe it would not be the best in this thread, but if you want to start another thread go for it it's your idea and I would definitely support it. I think I'd rather join a pool from unraid as well, definitely would trust them more 😛 Yes this is okay, also keep in mind that doing it this way will queue the 6 plots (they will run one after the other), they wont run in parallel. If you want to do plotting in parallel, you have to open multiple terminal and type a create command in each That's quite good I would say. I manage to do around 12 a day so it's more like 1 plot every 2 hours for me. I'm still trying to perfect the art tho 😉 I didnt test this, but I would assume this is indeed correct. Generally speaking it takes a bit longer to write to drives when the parity is involved. Thank you ! I must point out that I did not make a docker (I dont wanna get credit for something I did not do haha), I simply made an unraid template that allows us to easily download and use the official Chia-Docker

Very true 👍, I'm gonna add this to the original post for people with unassigned or external HDDs

Yeah sorry I was still typing 😆, no worries this is new stuff. One problem I'm having is that I already used all my nvme and sata ports on my motherboard. I know some adapters exist that do sata -> pcie, are you planing on using that for your 6 Intel 480 SSD's ?

It's my pleasure ! It was really nothing to create a template as the docker itself was already made. Plus my way of finally giving back to this awesome community (I have much to give back to spaceinvaderone 😆) I share your concern for consumer SSDs. All my SSDs are consumer grade, relatively new and they have a somewhat okay tbw, so for now I'm plotting on them, but this is indeed not viable in the long run. For your question, there is an already existing solution. With Unraid 6.9, we can now create many cache pools. What I plan on doing is buying a few enterprise SSD and create a cache pool name something like 'Plotting Pool' with btrfs. I plan on keeping my other ssds in separate cache pools, for VM and for Cache stuff (docker, appdate etc...). Once I have this new cache, I simply plan on changing my plotting share cache to 'Plotting Cache'. I also believe in chia and I'm sure it will take off (I mean it's already well priced atm but we'll see). Personally I'd only be down for a pool if it's a real one (if it uses the new pool protocol which is coming soon). I don't have the knowledge on how to make one, but if the community made a real one I would participate for sure !

Your folder paths are wrong. You are writing inside of the docker itself this way, that is why you have a warning of 100% docker disk image utilisation ! What you need to do : Setup your variables this way : When you create plots, use this command instead (note the paths I'm using) : venv/bin/chia plots create -b 5000 -r 2 -n 1 -t /plotting -d /plots

I didn't realise this, thanks for bringing it to my attention. I 'm gonna update my first post to reflect this and I also think I'm going to be able to add more variables in the template ! EDIT: Note that In the case of Unraid you can map this to a share that is included in many HDDs instead of creating a share for each HDD Yes ! You can close the terminal and it will still run. You can check that the process is still running by opening a terminal on unraid (not the docker) and typing 'htop'. You should see a 'chia create plot' in the first things in the list

This container is the official Chia-Docker. Sadly, right now the container only accepts 1 argument for the plotting folder (/plotting). Right now the only thing I can think of is if you can find a way to have your folders inside of your /plotting share on differents ssds and you point to those when plotting. (Not sure we can do this right now tho) I'm assuming you're talking about plotting, the only way I found to see what's going on when you close a terminal window that's plotting is this : Open a terminal on your Unraid Server itself (not the chia docker) Type : htop If you're plotting, you should see the command you typed (something like venv/bin/chia plots create -b 5000 -r 2 -n 1 -t /plotting/plot1 -d /plots) at the top of the list I would strongly advise against farming with HPool. HPool is not a true pool since pools are not implemented right now. You are basically betting on their good faith, what they are doing right now is sketchy at best. That being said, when the pool protocol will be released, I'm sure the official Chia-Docker will have variables added to it that can support pooling. I'll update the Unraid template accordingly when that happens. At the beginning when you are not synced at all, this is normal. However after some time you should begin to see something else, if that's not the case report back here we can try to find solutions !

tjb_altf4 beat me to it 😛 You can do this with the 'harvester' variable. On the docker template, click on 'see more settings' and you should see a 'harvester_only' variable. Put that to true instead of false and you should be good to go if your other settings are okay ! You can verify if this worked via the docker logs of the container, you should only see this after starting daemon: Starting daemon chia_harvester: started and no other services started. Dang congrats !!! Thanks for the encouragement, I'm definitely going to keep going as long as I can 😃

It really depends on what exactly you want to do on your server. I'm guessing you would like to farm + harvest on the server. For farming there is not much requirement there in terms of resources. For harvesting it's another story. Personally, I have 24 threads and 64 GB ram on my server. Of these, I reserved around 8 threads and 30 GB of ram for plex. That means pretty much everything I have left is """free""". Now the other factor you have is SSD space. I only have 2 small SSDs on my server (2 X 500 GB), and since 1 k=32 plot equals to about 310 GB, I only have enough space to do 2 plots at a time. Because of this I give all my resource left divided by 2 to each plotter. So that means about 8 thread each and 10 GB of ram. These numbers are probably way to big for only 1 plot, since default is 2 threads and 4 GB of ram by plot, but in my case I'm limited by my SSDs. Another thing you can do is to have multiple plotting machines and send the plots to your unraid server for farming once they are finished. This is what I do with my main computer (this one can do 5 plots at a time) and it seems to work great (haven't found chia yet tho lol). Hopefully this gives you an idea, if you have any more questions don't hesitate to ask 😛

Don't take this the wrong way but please don't spread misinformation. At the moment, you can get pretty lucky and get some with 1 plot but it is indeed just pure luck. In about 1-2 weeks, devs are supposed to release the pool protocol which will allow everyone to farm together in a pool. This will give you more consistent rewards and everyone will have to replot to participate in a pool. I personally still think it is worth it if you already have some storage that's doing nothing (which I'm suspecting a lot of unraid users have), but I'm not here to advocate for the blockchain, just providing an easier way to install for those who are insterested by the project. Also you are wrong about the price, chia is currently 550$ USD each and it is now tradeable in a few exchanges. (It was around 1300$ USD at the time of release on exchanges and is slowly stabilizing in the 500-600 range) EDIT: It also takes less space than you think, I have 14 TB right now and I have an estimated time to win of 1 month. Of course, the network is growing very quickly but it's just not in the 40 TB range yet 2nd EDIT: Seems like it's back in the 1100$ range lol 3rd EDIT: I also suggest you look into the project more in dept. Chia does not take a lot of electricity, especially if you already have a server running, only plotting really takes a bit but farming itself is very green especially compared to other crypto that are using proof of work (like bitcoin)

Absolutely, added the command in my first post, thank you 😃

The docker is now in CA 🎉, simply search for 'chia'

My bad, the docker is still being added to CA by Squid at the moment, he said it would be added this AM. ( Maybe I should have waited before posting this support thread ) EDIT : I'm gonna make it clear in the post that this is not in CA yet

Overview: Support thread for Partition Pixel/Chia in CA. Application: Chia - https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain "Docker Hub": https://github.com/orgs/chia-network/packages/container/package/chia GitHub: https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-docker This is not my docker, nor my blockchain, and I'm not a developer for them either. I simply did an Unraid template for the already existing docker so that way It will be easier for me and others to install the docker on an existing Unraid Server. I can support any changes required to the xml template and provide assistance on how to use the parameters or how to use the docker itself. Please read on SSD Endurance if you don't know about Chia and you plan on farming it : https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/SSD-Endurance Instructions: Install Partition Pixel's Chia via CA. Create a 'chia' directory inside of your appdata folder. Skip to step 4 if you do not have an existing chia wallet Inside this new folder, create a new file called 'mnemonic.txt' and copy and paste your 24 words mnemonic from your wallet inside (every word one after another on the same line with 1 space in between like this sentence). Back on the docker template, choose a location for your plotting if you plan on plotting on your server (preferably a fast SSD here) Choose a location for storing your plots (this is where they will be used to 'farm', preferably HDD here) Feel free to click on show more settings and change any other variable or path you would like Save changes, pull down the container and enjoy ! If you have some unassigned or external HDDs that you want to use for farming: edit /mnt/user/appdata/chia/mainnet/config/config.yaml Add more plot directories like so : plot_directories: - /plots - /plots2 Create a new path in the docker template like so : config type : Path container path : /plots2 host path : /mnt/an_unassigned_hdd/plots/ Here are some often used command lines to get you started: Open a console in the docker container, then type : venv/bin/chia farm summary venv/bin/chia wallet show venv/bin/chia show -s -c venv/bin/chia plots check Command to start plotting : venv/bin/chia plots create -b 5000 -r 2 -n 1 -t /plotting/plot1 -d /plots -b is amount of ram you want to give -r is the amount of threads -n is the number of plots you want to queue -t is temp dir -d is the completed directory From user ropes: If you only want to harvest on this docker, then you don't need to create a mnemonic file with your passphrase. Instead you can do the following (more secure imo) : chia plots create [other plot options] -f <farmer key> -p <pool key> If you want to run in Parallel just run the command in another terminal window as many times as your rig will allow. Here are all the available CLI commands for chia : https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/CLI-Commands-Reference From user tjb_altf4:

Hi there, loving the docker so far and it came right on time ! (I started mining monero like yesterday) One issue I'm having is that I only get around 7 mh/s when I'm supposed to get more like 11-12 mh/s. My CPU is a Ryzen 3900X. I have 11/12 cores mining and I tried switching privileged mode on/off. I'm also seeing the msr FAILED TO APPLY MSR MOD, HASHRATE WILL BE LOW like you mentioned, I'm thinking this is what is causing my hashrate loss. I'm guessing the kernel is absent from the base image and you would need to add it ? I have some docker experience if that can be of any help, none regarding kernels tho lol

Hello there, I'm new to unraid and the forums, and I just want to report that upgrading from 6.8.3 to 6.9.0 rc2 went really well, no issues so far, except the HDD temperature which is not really one anyway since I can see the temperatures again by spinning my drives up. In fact, this update solved 3 of my problems since it includes the new Linux kernel which add support to some AMD hardware. I'm using the asus tuf gaming plus wifi x570 and a ryzen 3900x. Before the update, I could not see any temperature for my CPU and motherboards (no fan speed either). Also, I could not pass through my onboard audio without crashing my whole server (even with the vfio-pci plugin). On top of that, I had to remove and recreate my Windows 10 VM template every time I wanted to use it, otherwise it would not boot. Upgrading to 6.9.0 rc2 solved all of those issues for me. The only thing I did other than upgrading, was to add acpi_enforce_resources=lax in my Syslinux configuration, temperature would not be detected otherwise. And of course, I used the new 6.9.0 feature of reserving hardware for pass through, and this time it worked ! Just putting this out there for anyone who needs it. Have a nice one !