Farming on RsbPi4_questions- disc gone idle and CPU at100%

Chia Farming & Harvesting
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Hi there,
I am farming on RasbPI4 with 8gig RAM, with Ubunto desktop. Pool: Spacepool.
I have 527 plots.

  1. When i open the Chia GUI today , at first glance it was showing 432 plots and after 10 sec, showed 527plots.
    Is that mean one of the discs was idle and opening the GUI i woke it up?
    Is there a setting somewhere to prevent discs go idle ?

  2. My CPU is constantly at 95-100 percent, is this normal? I have in tot 5 external USB discs. What will happen if i add 10more? Can the CPU handle it?

Thanks

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Hi,

  1. Prevent External USB HDD Disk Sleeping

  2. That usage is not normal and it doesnt come from HDD. Ull hit other limits between 8 and 14 disks: How many external HDDs can you have in a Raspberry Pi 4 8gb?

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You need less than 1% for the farming process.

4

The most compatible and easiest way is to run a cronjob that touches a file on the disc. Something like:

*/5 * * * * touch -a /media/pi/farm/no-spin-down.touch

Exactly how often you will have to run it depends. I suggest you start with 5 min as shown above and lower this if it still does stop spinning.

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Hi Chris,
Yes, but running full node is not only farming.
My CPU runs between 20-70 % during full chia app running.
Chia_wallet and chia_full_node are the most CPU hungry processes.
Is this normal?

6

That is amazing… how many plots a day are you getting?
What are you specs?
I am all but about to give up with my rig as even with big specs… it makes no sense

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Is this using the GUI?
Are there any errors in your logs?
Also, is your node/wallet fully synced and up to date?

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Yes, using the GUI.
I see no errors
It is fully synced. When not synced, CPU goes to 100% all the time.