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Hey, thanks for the tip. In fact, the unraid box in question is fairly underpowered - the CPU is listed as: "AMD Turion™ II Neo N54L Dual-Core @ 2200 MHz" - but is also dedicated to Machinaris and hpool. It does literally nothing else, so I think I can get away with not bothering pinning. I actually have two of these boxes, HP N54L microservers, each running unraid - one for farming and one for everything else 😁 both stuffed with disks. Cheers!

Hi, you're right, turns out I hadn't opened the chia port and it was stuck at: Current Blockchain Status: Syncing 0/1412351. I'll open the port and wait for full sync, I guess! Thanks

Hi, One thing i've noticed is that my server reports 100% CPU usage basically all the time. I took a look at `top`, and notice that it always seems to be the chia full node process thats eating CPU. The other coins are hovering at a handful of %, with occasional spikes, but chia always seems to be eating CPU. Is this likely to be some side-effect of the fact i'm not actually farming any plots for Chia? Some busy-loop thing happening in the Chia side? PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 17076 root 20 0 878384 466924 7392 R 98.0 2.9 1:35.00 chia_full_node

Lo and behold, I was checking my farm summary and turns out I won 2 Flax the other day So it seems like everything is working correctly and i'm just unlucky / waiting on HDDcoin. Thanks for the tip about disabling Chiadog, my alerts tab is much more usable now!

Thanks for the detailed help, Guy, much appreciated. I'll check those settings when I get home, thanks again. I guess I'm mostly looking for reassurance everything is working as expected and I just need to be patient 😁

Hi, I'm looking for guidance as to where to check if anything is going wrong with my setup. In short, i'm farming three Chia alts only, as i'm still using hpool for Chia itself. So my Machinaris setup is the Machinaris main docker plus the dockers for flax, flora and hddcoin, all using the same set of plot drives, totalling just under 40TB of non-pooling (OG) plots. I've not added any plots folders for Chia itself, as i'm using hpool as mentioned, in a separate docker. But the others all have the exact same plot folders configured. Here's the thing: I'm winning Flora very regularly, but nothing at all for HDDCoin or Flax, beyond wins i've had in the past, pre-Machinaris. Chia - Expected Time to Win: Never (no plots) Flax - Expected Time to Win: 2 weeks and 4 days Flora - Expected Time to Win: 1 week Hddcoin - Expected Time to Win: 1 week and 6 days The 'Challenges from Harvesters' graphs look fine (obviously the Chia one is empty). Almost all challenges responded well under a second, with occasional peaks up to a handful of seconds at most. The blockchains all read 'Full Node Synced', each coin has multiple pages of connections to peers, the alerts tab only shows occasional 'skipped signage points' messages from HDDcoin - its kind of hard to read since the Chia harvester offline warning swamps the alerts (Feature Request: Machinaris for Chia alts only - allow disabling Chia itself!) The system has been up and running, and stable, for a couple of months now. As I say, I see semi-regular wins on Flora, but not on Flax or HDDcoin. Any pointers on what to check? Or am I just seriously unlucky?

Ok thanks!

Quick question: does the high CPU usage calm down once the chains and wallets are synced? My old N54L microserver is crying at 100% CPU constantly just now but I'm guessing that's just because things are still syncing?

By the way, really nice job on the software. I'm not doing plotting at present, so there's a lot of it i'm not using, but combined with unRAID it makes for a really nice solution for farming multiple forks. Kudos!

Thanks, Guy! Thats exactly what I hoped. No worries on the plots display, so long as I can see the correct values for plots / size of plots being farmed for the forks, thats great. I don't suppose there's an easy way to disable some of the chia stuff to save RAM / disk space? My microserver only has 8GB right now, though I plan to add more, but it would be good to make some savings by disabling some of the chia side. Thanks!

Apologies if this has been covered, i've been googling it for the last half hour... I want to ensure Machinaris is only farming the forks, not chia itself - I already have a Docker setup to farm chia via hpool and dont want to get banned I set up the fork dockers with the paths to my plots, and omitted them from the main Machinaris docker's config - is this sufficient to prevent it farming my plots for Chia? Thanks! Great app, and really liking the ease of setup on unRAID.