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This page will try to explain:
- why certain warnings (or errors) are returned by Chiadog,
- what these warnings mean,
- what causes there warnings and,
- what you can do to potentially fix these errors.
Severity:
Sentiment: 😟 to 😯 (depending on the amount of occurrences)
What does it mean: Chia allows the network a maximum of 30 seconds to find a proof. Within those 30 seconds, the farmer receives a challenge, this is distributed to one or more of your harvesters, the harvester does the lookup within its plots and if any proof are found, they are returned to the farmer, which in turn returns it to the network.
If seeking plots takes longer than 30 seconds, Chia will have already picked a winner by the time you can return a potential proof. Ideally, seek times will be below 5 seconds, since seeking plots is just one of the actions that need to be performed in picking a winning plot. That is why the Chiadog Daily Summary lists occurrences above 5 and 15 seconds. If you are seeing unusually high percentages of seek times longer than 5 and 15 seconds, you might want to monitor your system's resources.
Why does it happen: High seek times are usually related to hardware bottlenecks. Are you running a lot of additional workloads on the same system? Are you using your gaming PC as a Chia harvester? Are you plotting and harvesting at the same time? Are you using a relatively old system?
What can I try:
- Monitor your resource consumption from the Performance tab in
Task Manageron Windows or usetopon Linux. See which processes are hogging the biggest part of your system - Try to limit the number of concurrent loads on the system (don't play games while harvesting)
- Move your harvester to a dedicated, sufficiently fast system
Severity:
Sentiment: Work in progress
What does it mean: Work in progress
Why does it happen: Work in progress
What can I try: Work in progress
Severity:
Sentiment: Work in progress
What does it mean: Work in progress
Why does it happen: Work in progress
What can I try: Work in progress
Experiencing networking issues? Harvester did not participate in any challenge for 436 seconds. It's now working again.
Severity:
Sentiment: Work in progress
What does it mean: Work in progress
Why does it happen: Work in progress
What can I try: Work in progress
Severity: 🚨 (error)
Sentiment: 😒 to 😱
What does it mean: If your harvester is offline, the plots farmed by your harvester are inaccessible and won't participate in any events.
Why does it happen: If you are running Chiadog on Windows, there is currently a known bug where Chiadog loses track of your Chia log file when it rotates ([what is log rotation?)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_rotation]).
Aside from this common problem, there are other reasons why Chiadog may report your harvester being offline:
- The chia harvester or farm is offline, reboot your Chia GUI or run
chia start -r harvester - If it's a remote harvester, the remote system may be offline. Try logging into it or rebooting.
- If it's a remote harvester, the connection between Chiadog and the remote system may be offline. Try to SSH into the remote machine from your Chiadog instance.
What can I try: Work in progress
Severity: 🚨 (error)
Sentiment: 🙄 to 😱 (depending on the amount of dropped plots)
What does it mean: Chiadog noticed that there is a drop in plots being farmed.
Why does it happen: Plot decreases usually occur due to one of the following reasons:
- An external hard drive got disconnected, lost power or worse, crashed
- You intentionally removed some bad plots following a
chia plots check - An internal hard drive crashed (unlikely)
If the drop is just one or two plots, another likely reason is that you are plotting on this machine and you have set up plotman (or a similar plotting manager) to archive plots to a remote farm.
What can I try:
- If you are plotting and the error is thrown because of plot archival, you can safely ignore this error
- Check your Explorer (Windows) or
df -h(Linux/Mac) to make sure all drives are still mounted - Check that your external hard drives are securely connected to both your harvester and a power source
- Run
sudo mount -av(Linux/Mac) to try and re-mount unmounted HDDs - Physically reconnect the external drive