Update on the storm

Oct 29, Watch the trailer and read the full changelog below. If you enjoyed the trailer, give it a thumbs up! New features and content The Cursed Royal Woodlands biome is back! Now with improved visuals and gameplay, all the more spooky! The Cursed Royal Woodlands can spawn once you reach the Phase of the Slickshell, and are marked by a blue-ish aura on the World Map it will start appearing once you start a new Cycle after updating the game.

Added 8 completely new perks inspired by the Community Brainstorm. Crowded Caravan — Each newcomer group has additional villagers. Lost in the wild — Gain a villager for each discovered Glade. Overtime — Bonus to global production speed but villagers have a small chance of dying every 60 seconds.

Bone Tools — Gain Infused Tools every time a villager leaves or dies. Added 4 new Deeds to the Obsidian Archive. Added 4 new themed decorations unlockable through completing the new Deeds. Added a Graphics Quality option to the settings. The first-ever Community Vote is now live in-game! The Drainage Mole now only appears in Forbidden Glades.

But it can be outranked in the transaction fee competation. Dust Storm exposed two problems: 1. Transactions fees can easily address the first problem, you are right about it. This is the main problem. There are some fixes that are going to help with network stability. However, let me try to restate what I wrote above. That is the reason that I have asked for that farm size distribution for nodes that were behind. And again, the code that did this damage is already out. Anyone can rent decent AWS instances, and run the hell out of that.

This is the scary part, at least for me. As far as the fixes that you are working on, take a look at those two screenshots above, as those may give you an idea how much behind you are. I would be very careful especially since Chia is a public company and could sue for damages from a DDOS type crypto attack.

I would not doubt it if their lawyers are already looking into any legal avenues available to them for this attack. This is a little different than a normal crypto currency where it is decentralized and damages are hard to prove against a single entity. Chia is a centralized company and can sue for damages as noted many times already for name infringements. Whether they do or not is up to them.

Most likely, those are solid engineers with already years of expertise. Chia's code is an open source, so that makes it even easier. Now it sounds like that this is not possible because the software is too slow on lowend hardware maybe because Python? And my main Computer is not running all the time should not, that's why I want to move everything to the PI.

This inefficiency makes small farming near impossible. My Computer eats more energy than the Storage. And turning off the farmer 18 hours a day makes also no sense. I am absolute clueless what to do now. Selling my 45TB drives and say good bye to this project? Or waiting a year to the point where the software got stable.

And just a side note: Today my blockchain db got screwed. Needed to resync for no reasons. Just the software did not connect to the network. Only removing the blockchain db fixed that problem. No errors even in the log file How long will that take in a year? Just a lil disappointed User who solo farmed since April and replotts now for pooling. Feels like I was right with my skeptical view on python as the main language for a blockchain project.

The pi itself seems to run fine, however the storage medium that you use does have a large impact. The problem with slow handling of mostly blockchain is not just RPis with SD cards.

Looking at ChiaForum, more and more farmers running desktops that have their installation on hard drives experience problems. Hopefully, you can get a good db dev to optimize blockchain db, plus provide some utility to check that db for corruption. Now that's a legit issue that was unexpected which dev team has promised to fix in 1.

I was searching online for any clues, and found this answer on StackOverflow : "The. All page reads go through the normal mechanism to access the database file, and are wrapped inside a transaction.

I have tried to locate the source of that assertion, but failed couldn't find anything on sqlite website. If that assertion about restarting the backup process on any db writes is correct, it implies that blockchain db, cannot be backed up by this tool. I have tried to search for other options replication , and found four commercial utilities, but gave up on those. So, at the moment, I believe that the best option would be to have Chia provide download link to somewhat latest db as other forks are doing.

Again, I don't know anything about sqlite. This is my very first time to deal with it, so maybe there are other solutions that actually work. Dishwasha Than you for your help in this process. Further, syncing the content to the disk is not required, as long as the application is willing to sacrifice durability following a power loss or hard reboot. This doesn't sound reassuring. We know that most people crash blockchain db handling processes on Chia restarts or reboots.

There is no data how much, how fast, so it is hard to say whether this is a serious degradation. There is potentially a remedy for that by running checkpoints. But again, just guessing, still it doesn't sound right.

My take is that as with any db, you need a db expert to fine tune it, and possibly one that knows that db. If one has basically zero experience in that knows only how to do selects and updates , that is just a shortcut to a disaster. I added my main computer as a node to the Pi node and it is now syncing. And because you try to backup the blockchain db manually maybe it could be working this way too:. With other databases than sqlite I would do something similar: Primary DB which replicates to a secondary.

The secondary database is where the backup happens. The reason is that this will not affect the performance of the primary. I log every minute the node status, cpu usage and the mem usage. Will do that with some other machines later too. Absolutely, what you stated is right. Although, if you think that blockchain db downloaded from Chia.

Potentially, a PGP signature could help, but that is out of the scope of this thread. However, all that is beside the point of this thread.

We are not talking how things should work, but what doesn't work, and how to at least mitigate it. One week after I started the Pi up it isnt synced I even went to my router and opend port and still its taking ages.

Why do I, or other guys on the forum need to help such guy? Why do you need to spend your time explaining the basics? We all want Chia to succeed, but there should be some limits, where things are potentially easy to address. Let's say that the very first two are a fresh starts the whole blockchain needs to be download , and the last two are where the user has virtually up-to-speed db.

I guess, we can agree that downloading a 30GB file should take less than an hour say for Mbps download speed. Also, regardless of what storage is being used, it should also be less than an hour to write it. Assuming that the new setup is downloading that data from just one peer that has 5 Mbps upstream bandwidth, such download should take about 20 hours.

Become a Member. Read Today's E-edition. Log In. My Membership. Share This. Share this. If you live in the heart of the South, you might be dreaming of a rare snowy weekend. People are also reading…. Atlanta could see its first measurable snow in nearly 1, days.

If the situation sets up just right, parts of the Carolinas could see a significant ice event. As is often the case, "20 miles can make all the difference," they add.

Photos and video from Virginia's I gridlock. All rights reserved. Related to this story. Most Popular. New Mexico woman accused of abandoning newborn in dumpster. Omicron outlook: Where are the tests? Dick Cheney: Rebuilding a bridge across the partisan divide? Biden to back filibuster change in Georgia speech; details from Saget's death; Georgia wins title. Giant dying star explodes as scientists watch in real time — a first for astronomy. Betty White's death caused by stroke suffered 6 days earlier.

Listen live: Supreme Court weighs vaccine rules affecting more than 80M. Watch Now: Related Video. New study reveals oldest human remains are 30, years older than thought. Scientists find universal mathematical 'law' hidden in sand ripples. Vietnam incense village dazzles ahead of Lunar New Year, though sales down. Close 1 of 2. CNN Weather.

Ash St. Notifications Settings. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. It isn't a time to venture out!! Just wanted to give you all another update. We have now lost power, citywide! We will get through this together! Bernard, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. As of 11 p. The storm was located roughly 30 miles east-southeast of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and was traveling north-northwest at 9 mph.

At least one person in the U. The power outages in New Orleans have also hit the city's sewage pumping stations, the Sewage and Water Board of New Orleans said in a statement Sunday night. Twenty-two barges broke loose from their mooring and are drifting on the Mississippi River, St. Bernard Parish officials confirmed Sunday. New Orleans officials tweeted that tens of thousands of residents have "no power" and "the only power in the city is coming from generators" as Hurricane Ida continues its trek inland.

The only power in the city is coming from generators. Ida pic. Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana on Sunday afternoon. The Category 4 storm brings dangerous wind and rain. Omar Villafranca has the latest. Over six hours after it made landfall, Ida finally weakened to a Category 3 storm with still extremely dangerous winds of mph. ET, the storm was passing over Mathews, Louisiana.

The storm is moving northwest at 10 mph as it continued to slam Terrebonne Parish, where Houma is located.