No rewards for 9863 plots for about a month

Chia Plotting
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I have the same problem. More than 6k plots and not winning a block for more than 3 weeks. Main Farmer/Harvester M1 Mac Mini 5k plots + harvesters running Ubuntu Server 20.0.4

TLDR; it seems this is a bug in the Chia code. (Does anyone having >5k plots win recently?)

I spent a lot of time debugging over the last few weeks.

  1. Looking up qualities:
    I used to have this issue. But changing plot_loading_frequency_seconds: 1264000 fixed it.
    Question: does checking the plot cause the looking up issue or it’s a bug in the software? I’d say it’s a bug in the software. Why?
  • running chia plots check while farming/harvesting doesn’t create looking up qualities issue
  • running chia start harvester -r causes the looking qualities issue in several disks.
  • Disk speed test shows high throughput and milliseconds seek time.
    (HDD sleeping is disabled)

  1. Many plots pass filter every 8 seconds

  2. Network connections are all. Ping time in a few miliseconds.

  3. Fullnode has been always in sync.

I won 4 times when the number of plots was small. But not winning for more than 3 weeks when the # of plots is more than 5k

Appreciate any suggestion.