Farmer or pool public key that is not on this machine

Shmoe · August 7, 2021, 9:37am

I’ve read this totally ok if this is happening on a Harvester Machine.
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There are 2922 plots with a farmer or pool public key that is not on this machine. The farmer private key must be in the keychain in order to farm them, use ‘chia keys’ to transfer keys. The pool public keys must be in the config.yaml

But the question is - why this is only being shown on 1 of 4 of my Harvesters? Now I started to doubt if they are really working (I mean - these plots), because I’m having a really bad luck - 6000+ plots and last reward was in June.

So, I created plots on Harvesters and connect them to my Farmer Machine, but only 1 of 4 Harvesters shows that message, others passed checks just fine.

And how do I verify all plots have the correct keys and stuff? If my GUI (Farmer) picks up these plots - then they are good? Or how this works.

Like, if I decide to order plotting and provide keys, how do I verify my contract and farmer keys are there or if GUI adds them to total number, means they are fine?

rfc2324 · August 7, 2021, 1:04pm

I’d start with changing log verbosity to INFO and watch it for a few minutes on each harvester, as well as farmer.
Expected behavior: once in a few seconds the harvester indicates number of proofs submitted out of total plots #

Another great way to check your performance is to join a pool (nft plots though). Each properly set up harvester instance will show up on the pool as a “worker”. Having ~100 nft plots on each harvester should do the job

Shmoe · August 7, 2021, 2:58pm

Well, thing is I don’t need to know if Harvesters are set up properly or no, because I know they are - they are reflected in GUI in the ‘Harvesters’ field and total plots count adds up if count each Harvester separately and what I see GUI’s ‘Total’ field.

Log is set to INFO from the start, so, I checked Harvesters logs:

for example like this:

2021-08-07T05:30:11.232 harvester chia.plotting.plot_tools: INFO     Loaded a total of 2830 plots of size 280.0992603533832 TiB, in 3.8783962726593018 seconds
2021-08-07T05:30:12.135 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     11 plots were eligible for farming 8eca0932a1... Found 0 proofs. Time: 4.78147 s. Total 2830 plots
2021-08-07T05:30:17.953 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     5 plots were eligible for farming 8eca0932a1... Found 0 proofs. Time: 1.12897 s. Total 2830 plots
2021-08-07T05:30:28.008 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     5 plots were eligible for farming 8eca0932a1... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.58509 s. Total 2830 plots
2021-08-07T05:30:36.659 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     8 plots were eligible for farming 8eca0932a1... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.98422 s. Total 2830 plots
2021-08-07T05:30:45.260 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     7 plots were eligible for farming 8eca0932a1... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.94221 s. Total 2830 plots
2021-08-07T05:30:54.913 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     6 plots were eligible for farming 8eca0932a1... Found 0 proofs. Time: 1.26488 s. Total 2830 plots
2021-08-07T05:31:05.432 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     9 plots were eligible for farming 8eca0932a1... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.86820 s. Total 2830 plots
2021-08-07T05:31:16.210 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     3 plots were eligible for farming 8eca0932a1... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.54923 s. Total 2830 plots
2021-08-07T05:31:28.165 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     9 plots were eligible for farming d3f5c451fe... Found 0 proofs. Time: 1.17513 s. Total 2830 plots
2021-08-07T05:31:36.854 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     5 plots were eligible for farming d3f5c451fe... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.64615 s. Total 2830 plots
2021-08-07T05:31:46.147 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     7 plots were eligible for farming d3f5c451fe... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.60614 s. Total 2830 plots
2021-08-07T05:31:54.363 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     5 plots were eligible for farming d3f5c451fe... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.66615 s. Total 2830 plots
2021-08-07T05:32:04.728 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     12 plots were eligible for farming d3f5c451fe... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.95021 s. Total 2830 plots
2021-08-07T05:32:13.423 harvester chia.plotting.plot_tools: INFO     Searching directories ['E:\\Chia', 'I:\\Chia', 'F:\\Chia', 'G:\\Chia', 'H:\\Chia', 'L:\\chia', 'K:\\chia', 'J:\\Chia', 'M:\\Chia', 'N:\\Chia', 'O:\\Chia', 'P:\\Chia', 'Q:\\Chia', 'G:\\ChiaN', 'I:\\Chian', 'P:\\ChiaN', 'R:\\Chia', 'N:\\Chian', 'M:\\Chian', 'D:\\Box1\\Chian', 'D:\\Box2\\Chian', 'D:\\Box3\\Chian', 'D:\\Box4\\Chian', 'D:\\Box5\\Chian', 'D:\\Box6\\Chian', 'K:\\Chian', 'J:\\Chian', 'E:\\Chian', 'D:\\Box7\\Chian']
2021-08-07T05:32:13.457 harvester chia.plotting.plot_tools: WARNING  Directory: K:\chia does not exist.

or this on another Harvester:

-31T09:23:21.144 harvester chia.plotting.plot_tools: INFO     Loaded a total of 669 plots of size 66.53616461728598 TiB, in 0.38660550117492676 seconds
2021-07-31T09:23:21.355 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     1 plots were eligible for farming eee5224133... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.59739 s. Total 669 plots
2021-07-31T09:23:34.659 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     3 plots were eligible for farming eee5224133... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.27771 s. Total 669 plots
2021-07-31T09:23:45.922 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     2 plots were eligible for farming eee5224133... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.24874 s. Total 669 plots
2021-07-31T09:23:56.145 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     2 plots were eligible for farming eee5224133... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.46553 s. Total 669 plots
2021-07-31T09:24:07.004 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     0 plots were eligible for farming eee5224133... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.15184 s. Total 669 plots
2021-07-31T09:24:15.519 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     3 plots were eligible for farming eee5224133... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.24275 s. Total 669 plots
2021-07-31T09:24:24.447 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     0 plots were eligible for farming eee5224133... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.13786 s. Total 669 plots
2021-07-31T09:24:33.341 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     0 plots were eligible for farming eee5224133... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.18181 s. Total 669 plots
2021-07-31T09:24:42.832 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     0 plots were eligible for farming eee5224133... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.16183 s. Total 669 plots
2021-07-31T09:24:52.624 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     2 plots were eligible for farming eee5224133... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.42357 s. Total 669 plots
2021-07-31T09:25:02.565 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     0 plots were eligible for farming eee5224133... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.12887 s. Total 669 plots
2021-07-31T09:25:11.294 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     1 plots were eligible for farming eee5224133... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.27172 s. Total 669 plots
2021-07-31T09:25:20.505 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     1 plots were eligible for farming eee5224133... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.45154 s. Total 669 plots

or this from my Farmer Machine:

This is little bit less clear to me, but all in all seems in line and everything is working smoothly.

2021-08-06T19:03:57.083 harvester chia.harvester.harvester: INFO     4 plots were eligible for farming 3b5a8ab52b... Found 0 proofs. Time: 0.64010 s. Total 2170 plots
2021-08-06T19:03:58.708 full_node chia.full_node.full_node: INFO     Added unfinished_block d31e0250d25702440ac04def1f6da0ac0c22eb480b7a9bc9a425fdc150b36f4e, not farmed by us, SP: 10 farmer response time: 2.265185832977295, Pool pk xch1j4dh3z6mngmlms7l9f6hajkp7a8au0vmfxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, validation time: 0.14063715934753418, cost: 363681930, percent full: 3.306%
2021-08-06T19:04:00.989 full_node chia.full_node.full_node: INFO      Updated peak to height 677975, weight 720080384, hh f26cf10a7eae0c396c94a6f3c821eaf80d4948611173ab7926e1b4xxxxxxx, forked at 677974, rh: 2d17931bd284d1147a2d33a7e15f76e44b2b6f3e290123bdc2ec05b25xxxxxx, total iters: 2358320686223, overflow: False, deficit: 9, difficulty: 2640, sub slot iters: 130023424, Generator size: 9983, Generator ref list size: 0
2021-08-06T19:04:00.989 full_node chia.full_node.mempool_manager: INFO     add_spendbundle took 0.0 seconds, cost 61829 (0.001%)
2021-08-06T19:04:00.989 full_node chia.full_node.mempool_manager: INFO     add_spendbundle took 0.0 seconds, cost 18175415 (0.165%)
2021-08-06T19:04:00.989 full_node chia.full_node.mempool_manager: INFO     add_spendbundle took 0.0 seconds, cost 10868858 (0.099%)
2021-08-06T19:04:00.989 full_node chia.full_node.mempool_manager: INFO     add_spendbundle took 0.0 seconds, cost 41414384 (0.376%)
2021-08-06T19:04:00.989 full_node chia.full_node.mempool_manager: INFO     add_spendbundle took 0.0 seconds, cost 31796662 (0.289%)
2021-08-06T19:04:01.005 full_node chia.full_node.mempool_manager: INFO     Size of mempool: 5 spends, cost: 102317148 minimum fee to get in: 0
2021-08-06T19:04:01.005 full_node chia.full_node.full_node: INFO     Block validation time: 0.8906936645507812, cost: 261673927, percent full: 2.379%
2021-08-06T19:04:01.083 wallet chia.wallet.wallet_blockchain: INFO      Updated wallet peak to height 677975, weight 720080384, 
2021-08-06T19:04:01.739 full_node chia.full_node.mempool_manager: INFO     It took 0.015625476837158203 to pre validate transaction
2021-08-06T19:04:01.739 full_node chia.full_node.mempool_manager: INFO     add_spendbundle took 0.0 seconds, cost 18439459 (0.168%)
2021-08-06T19:04:02.192 full_node chia.full_node.full_node: INFO     Added unfinished_block 04cccf868b2fee9f044829cf6f6e250eb1868f3ddfa9f1abfaab17xxxxxx, not farmed by us, SP: 10 farmer response time: 5.749508857727051, Pool pk xch1f0ryxk6qn096hefcwrdwpuph2hm24w69jnzezhkfswk0z2xxxxxx, validation time: 0.14063549041748047, cost: 363681930, percent full: 3.306%
2021-08-06T19:04:03.317 full_node chia.full_node.full_node: INFO     Duplicate compact proof. Height: 195224. Header hash: 05b6c21999c71b39917d9a93b4c2732ac9ee18f75fb64c87b052bb4axxxxx.
2021-08-06T19:04:06.177 full_node chia.full_node.full_node: INFO       Finished signage point 11/64: CC: 4225ab19a004743688529a7a5def36599c3679a75ab9c5828e6c32446xxxxx RC: f12a864085fc209cae9560ec273b90737955aaec9fb8c09117de93e45xxxxxxx

so, everything seems in OK with timings and such.

The question though still stands - why 1 of my 4 harvesters has the message (in my initial post) and others don’t, although I know this is probably fine, I am still curious

Thanks!

rfc2324 · August 7, 2021, 8:33pm

As long as the harvester logs show the number of scanned pools that add up to your expectations, they are working correctly.

When you check plots and get a warning about keys, this is expected on the lean harvesters that communicate with your farmer machine.

This probably depends on how you initialized harvesters. If simply copy entire SSL folder from main farmer, it will use all the same keys and root certificate authority. It will not produce a warning message when checking plots. However, this is not recommended as it is less secure. A more secure way is only use certificate authority from main farmer machine and initialize each harvester with its own certificates. This is most secure and enough to communicate with the farmer node, but it would produce those warning messages.

When running GUI on the main farmer, click the farm tab → advanced. You will see all the harvester nodes if everything is set up.