Chia.exe gives up in Phase 2 / 3 with no error in logs, Win10

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I’ve seen this recorded on the GitHub issues log (and recorded it myself), but wanted to start a thread here to see if anyone has encountered this and any potential fixes. This has been going on since 1.1.4 for me.

I have about 9 parallel plots at any given time, typically staggered so I don’t have too many running in Phase 1. I’ve noticed that I will usually have 1 or 2 of those plots just stop around 50-90% with no feedback at all in the plotter logs. No issues I can see on the machine when they get stuck (RAM is free as is temp space). Checking Windows event logs, I don’t see anything coinciding with the times they get stuck either. I’m managing my plots with Chia Manager. I also have my plotting drives / folders excluded from virus scans.

When it happens, chia.exe’s RAM paging stops altogether, though CPU might still look like it’s doing something. Oftentimes it completely gives up its RAM and you’ll see something like 50-64kb of use. It sits in this state for hours and I have to kill the process so I can open up a parallel slot to keep plotting. Other plots finish fine.

Github issue reported here: [BUG] chia.exe gives up plotting during Phase 2/3 on Win10 · Issue #4220 · Chia-Network/chia-blockchain · GitHub

Has anyone else seen this on Windows 10?

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Hello, I’m trying a single plot (K32 100GB) but it’s been hanging at 89% for few hours. This is the last few lines of log:

Bucket 80 uniform sort. Ram: 3.251GiB, u_sort min: 0.500GiB, qs min: 0.250GiB.
Bucket 81 uniform sort. Ram: 3.251GiB, u_sort min: 0.500GiB, qs min: 0.250GiB.
Bucket 82 uniform sort. Ram: 3.251GiB, u_sort min: 0.500GiB, qs min: 0.250GiB.
Bucket 83 uniform sort. Ram: 3.251GiB, u_sort min: 0.500GiB, qs min: 0.250GiB.
Bucket 84 uniform sort. Ram: 3.251GiB, u_sort min: 0.500GiB, qs min: 0.250GiB.

any idea what’s happening please?

Win 10, new M.2 SSD as temp and output to usb HDD.

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Join the club. I can’t complete a plot to save my life. This is so frustrating!