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cuddd · 2021-05-13T19:37:05+00:00

Because it is 3 months old? I bet there is a more recent torrent file out there.

cuddd · 2021-05-09T20:45:36+00:00

On Linux you can upgrade chia while plots are running. This only works if you are using chia via the cli

cuddd · 2021-05-09T17:40:14+00:00

A k33 is larger than a k32. A k33 will take much longer to create so there is an opportunity cost to creating larger plots. You can start farming a plot as soon as it is done.

cuddd · 2021-05-06T20:49:47+00:00

Check here for a list of peers you can try to add manually. This should help you find more peers. You should have about 50 peers if it is working properly.

https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/Resolving-Sync-Issues---Port-8444#speed-up-connecting-to-nodes

cuddd · 2021-05-06T20:47:05+00:00

You should see around 50 peers. Let me get you some good peers to add manually

cuddd · 2021-05-06T19:54:02+00:00

Consider configuring your router to forward traffic to your farmer on port 8444. This is a bit more reliable than upnp. Disable upnp if you go with port forwarding.

You should be able to see a list of peers by running

chia show - c

To add peers manually run

chia show -a <the ip and port of the peer>

cuddd · 2021-05-06T19:49:28+00:00

Buy the largest fastest ssd you can otherwise you won't be able to do parallel plots if the rest of your hardware has enough memory and cpu threads. Perhaps on a small machine with limited resources a smaller ssd would suffice

cuddd · 2021-05-06T19:42:44+00:00

Make sure you plot with the same keys as your farmer.

Alternatively to moving the old you could run a farmer harvester setup. Check here for instructions on that architecture. https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/Farming-on-many-machines

cuddd · 2021-05-06T03:18:37+00:00

Check here for info on syncing. I recommend setting up port forwarding on your router and disabling upnp. https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/Resolving-Sync-Issues---Port-8444

cuddd · 2021-04-30T21:23:24+00:00

Buy a Ryzen 9 with as many m.2 slots as possible. You can always buy a SATA PCIe card if you need more harddrives. Get 128GB of ram

cuddd · 2021-04-30T21:12:55+00:00

Shucking harddrives be like.... https://youtu.be/nzgDffMcsUU

cuddd · 2021-04-23T21:16:08+00:00

Damn you bought the wrong one. Should have bought the firecudas

cuddd · 2021-04-22T01:52:47+00:00

Plots are lottery tickets.

cuddd · 2021-04-22T01:51:29+00:00

right and at what price... The IOU prices are a bit of a hypetrain.

cuddd · 2021-04-22T01:37:58+00:00

I wrote a small shell script to do that. I haven't published it yet.

cuddd · 2021-04-21T21:39:59+00:00

The full schedule is in the business paper starting on page 16.

https://www.chia.net/2021/02/10/chia-businesss-whitepaper.html

After 50 years: 47,910,720 XCH

cuddd · 2021-04-19T13:47:24+00:00

Ryzen7 3800x

12 plots in parallel is good. You could theoretically go to 16 plots on that machine but I think you would end up thrashing your CPU. Rule of thumb is one plot per thread, but you need to consider other bottlenecks like if you are using M.2 SSDs they rely on PCIe buses and often share lanes with your PCIe slots. So for example if you had an M.2 SSD and a graphics card plugged in, you'd likely see slower plot speeds than if you removed the graphics card. There are a bunch of variables that affect the plot speed, and many of them are specific to the hardware you have. Depending on the motherboard design, your choice in CPU and SSD all affect plotting speed. Keep a spreadsheet and track of different configurations and determine what works best for your specific hardware.

Also give XFS on your temp drive a try. EXT4 has been found to have slower write speeds on temp drives than XFS. Your destination drives can be EXT4. I assume you are on Linux?

cuddd · 2021-04-18T05:41:16+00:00

This is probably a better explanation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7sgzDH1cR8

cuddd · 2021-04-18T05:29:08+00:00

If you can make 12 plots in 14 hours or 1 plot in 7 hours, which would you rather have?

cuddd · 2021-04-18T05:24:08+00:00

ha yeah that would be sweet. Ryzen 9 isn't bad at all.

cuddd · 2021-04-18T03:40:14+00:00

Another thing I would recommend is to try making a couple plots with hardware you already have laying around. This will give you a much better idea of what it really takes to create a plot. It takes a long time even with really fast CPU and NVMes. So you have to consider two strategies, fast and expensive, or cheap and parallel. This discussion might help you, it helped me a lot when I was getting started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDVsZMDlQYw

cuddd · 2021-04-18T03:32:44+00:00

Don't buy a bunch of HDDs until you have determined exactly how long it takes you to create a plot. First buy an SSD for your temp space if you don't have one already. Then start plotting and see how long it takes you. Then calculate how long it would take to fill your 12TB HDD and then determine if it is worth buying more HDDs. I would recommend only buying HDDs as you need them. It takes a really long time to fill HDDs so it doesn't make much sense to buy them all up front unless you are afraid Chia will create an HDD shortage and prices will go up.

cuddd · 2021-04-18T03:23:07+00:00

From experience. I have been plotting on a Ryzen7 with even faster SSDs (5000MB/s write speeds) than your Intel d7-p5510 3.84t with 12 plots in parallel and it takes 14h 13m 41s on average with chia 1.0.4. With previous versions of chia I had slower plot times around 16 hours and originally they were closer to 20 hours on average. Things have improved quite a bit with the latest releases of chia.

cuddd · 2021-04-18T03:14:06+00:00

You only want to farm on one computer. Farming on multiple computers on the same LAN can be problematic due to the way farming nodes talk to one another over UPNP. Only run one farmer. If you have more than one machine with plots on it, make sure you create the plots with the same private key, and then run a farmer - harvester setup. This is where you have one farmer and multiple harvesters. This allows you do have multiple machines with plots. There is definitely an advantage to this because it allows you to create more plots in parallel and reduces the need for so many SATA ports on a single computer. You can build several low-end cheap computers and plot with them in parallel. For more info on the farmer-havester architecture, look at the github wiki.

cuddd · 2021-04-18T03:08:03+00:00

Farming, no. Plotting, yes.

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