# Wont Farm Since 18-2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Tags:** gemini, farmer\ **Created:** [December 28, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/wont-farm-since-18-2/2303 "2023-12-28T21:16:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PuNkYsHuNgRy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/punkyshungry/32/541_2.png) [@PuNkYsHuNgRy](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/PuNkYsHuNgRy)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/wont-farm-since-18-2/2303/1 "2023-12-28T21:16:30Z")
Hello, I have a different setup than most, I have 25 ssds in a server. That server is maxed out so I’ve been farming them remotely through my 10G network. Recently I’ve stopped signing hashes due to the time limit. After checking sever other things I started testing all the releases starting with the newest. Finally when I got to the 18th part 2 it started working again. Now from what I’ve gathered through all my testing is that mostly likely something has changed since the 18-2 release that has effected my farming. Does anyone know what this change could be? Could we change it back so future releases support farming over a network? ---
**Author:** ![nazar-pc](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/nazar-pc/32/6_2.png) [@nazar-pc](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/nazar-pc)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 12:46am UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/wont-farm-since-18-2/2303/2 "2023-12-29T00:46:39Z")
Farming during initial plotting was enabled by default on large CPUs in `dec-20` and significantly improvements to cache handling were done in `dec-22`. Assuming you have plotted, I see no reason why it wouldn’t farm. Since `dec-20` doesn’t work for you, it might be that you’re still plotting some sectors and that is causing issues, then you can specify `--farm-during-initial-plotting false` to change it to the old behavior. ---
**Author:** ![PuNkYsHuNgRy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/punkyshungry/32/541_2.png) [@PuNkYsHuNgRy](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/PuNkYsHuNgRy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/wont-farm-since-18-2/2303/3 "2023-12-29T01:49:58Z")
Thank you for your reply. Not all the drives are plotted, some are plotting and some are replotting. Farming while plotting works with 18-2. I’m not sure why it wouldn’t work with the newest. I’m going to try the newest again and see if I can nail it down with some thread commands or something. I’ll report back if I get it working. ---
**Author:** ![nazar-pc](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/nazar-pc/32/6_2.png) [@nazar-pc](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/nazar-pc)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/wont-farm-since-18-2/2303/4 "2023-12-29T03:57:22Z")
I’d try `dec-20` first to narrow down a set of changes which might have caused this, but either way I see nothing obvious that would be a reason for a performance regression in recent releases. ---
**Author:** ![Jim-Autonomys](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/jim-autonomys/32/2922_2.png) [@Jim-Autonomys](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/Jim-Autonomys)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/wont-farm-since-18-2/2303/5 "2024-01-02T14:46:22Z")
Just wanted to confirm you noticed that the flag `--farm-during-initial-plotting` has been updated to be a boolean value so the equivalent is now `--farm-during-initial-plotting true`.