Old plots coming to life? Change the button of the Farm task

[Teledyol]

My old temporary space was quite inadequate so I upgraded the Farm. I used the macOS GUI all this time. Last week I was testing by trying to plot 8 plots in parallel to a 2T external mobile drive (Slim 2) over USB using my 256 SSD on a Mac Pro. It was duly pointed out to me that the system would be inadequate.

I stated that I was planning to upgrade to a 2T SSD and try again. Another, more accountable user informed me that even 2T would not be enough to handle 8 plots in parallel and I should really RTFM (in my own terminology). I scanned the intructions and ordered the larger SSD and thought a 32T raid running on Thunderbolt 2 would be a more respectable farm.

The parts arrived last night, but we had 3 episodes left of a thriller miniseries to watch with the wife, so I just looked at the new parts and binged on the TV and some Jerk Chicken, Peas and Rice instead.

I got up at 3:30 am PST put on the trusty robe and grabbed the Mac Pro off of the shelf and out back. I hooked up a hose to my compressor — like the inimitable Homebrew legend, Steve Inness taught me — took off the cover of my Mac Pro dust filter and blew it all off. The swap to the new rig didn't take long and I left most of my previous hard drives unplugged and did a clean install of Big Sur and relegated the old Beta 11.13 build to the old SSD in a new external housing, and migrated all the folders, except System, to the newly installed SSD. Ran like a charm.

I started up the Chia GUI and — sort of — took the advice of zachlankton and pared down the plotting aspirations from 8, in parallel, to four.

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I set the plots to go to the 32T drive, but forgot to reset the old plot directory to the new drive as well; it was 4am and I didn't have the coffee. Everything appeared to be going well…

However, around 10am the Console log stared spitting out these errors:

09:55:32.439 full_node src.full_node.full_node_store: WARNING Don't have challenge hash 2262c9e1f34fd3f5fb8c5fdfbc1304e01d10d7a5e276b3301b193a37847afb28
09:55:32.441 full_node src.full_node.full_node_store: WARNING Don't have challenge hash 2262c9e1f34fd3f5fb8c5fdfbc1304e01d10d7a5e276b3301b193a37847afb28
09:55:32.442 full_node src.full_node.full_node_store: WARNING Don't have challenge hash 2262c9e1f34fd3f5fb8c5fdfbc1304e01d10d7a5e276b3301b193a37847afb28
09:55:46.771 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.
09:58:14.257 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.
10:00:17.213 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.
10:02:21.918 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.
10:04:22.460 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.
10:06:31.341 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.
10:08:37.973 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.
10:10:45.695 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.
10:12:49.322 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.
10:14:49.567 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.
10:16:20.422 wallet src.full_node.weight_proof : ERROR failed validating weight proof sub epoch segments
10:16:20.424 wallet src.wallet.wallet_node : ERROR invalid weight proof, num of epochs 67 recent blocks num ,512
10:17:21.812 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.
10:19:18.067 wallet src.full_node.weight_proof : ERROR failed validating weight proof sub epoch segments
10:19:18.070 wallet src.wallet.wallet_node : ERROR invalid weight proof, num of epochs 67 recent blocks num ,513
10:19:34.056 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.
10:21:40.818 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.
10:22:11.920 wallet src.full_node.weight_proof : ERROR failed validating weight proof sub epoch segments
10:22:11.923 wallet src.wallet.wallet_node : ERROR invalid weight proof, num of epochs 67 recent blocks num ,514
10:23:47.484 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.
10:25:01.200 wallet src.full_node.weight_proof : ERROR failed validating weight proof sub epoch segments
10:25:01.203 wallet src.wallet.wallet_node : ERROR invalid weight proof, num of epochs 67 recent blocks num ,515
10:25:25.663 wallet wallet_server : ERROR Exception: <class 'asyncio.exceptions.TimeoutError'>, closing connection {'host': '127.0.0.1', 'port': 8444}. Traceback (most recent call last):
File "src/server/server.py", line 514, in api_call
File "asyncio/tasks.py", line 496, in wait_for
asyncio.exceptions.TimeoutError

10:25:25.666 wallet wallet_server : WARNING Trying to ban localhost for 10, but will not ban
10:26:02.160 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.
10:28:05.695 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.
10:30:07.416 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.
10:32:10.240 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.
10:34:10.858 harvester src.plotting.plot_tools : WARNING Directory: /Volumes/Slim 2/Farm does not exist.

… ad absurdum until I noticed around 5:30 that there was an issue.

It was asking for the old Farm disk and some tempfiles were showing:

plot-k32-2021-03-24-07-44-7cbc49622186cf685ca99cedd6ce62122ed8d95bece0dfac6968bbb514c510ab.plot.table7.tmp

"table7.tmp" ??? That should be "4" max. So I just plugged in the old drive to the hub and the error messages stopped. The .tmp files strted disappearing again and the SSD free space is slowly increasing again.

It appears that the new plots will end up on the Slim 2 ( back forty ) when I inteded to have them on the raid. Can they be moved?

I'm wondering how many plots I will end up with.

The button in the Farm tab says "ADD A PLOT," I think it would be better to change that to "ADD A PLOT DIRECTORY" and then "Done" or something for the finish, to differentiate it from the instructions on the Plot tab. Was this suggestion already made?

[Teledyol]

Four plots showed up on correct drive and the
Slim 2 Directory was removed from GUI