I am trying to go to ground 0 in my Ethereum PoA network but my mining node is constantly generating some "DAG" forever. When I run it first time it didn't happen.
Why and how to avoid it?
What I did to reset to ground zero:
geth removedb
rm -rf .ethash .ethereum
rm -rf node1/geth node1/geth.ipc
bootnode -nodekey boot.key -verbosity 9 -addr :30310
geth --datadir node1/ --syncmode 'full' --port 30311 --rpc --rpcaddr '$HOST' --rpcport 8501 --rpcapi 'personal,db,eth,net,web3,txpool,miner' --bootnodes 'enode://longnumber@127.0.0.1:30310' -unlock '0x$ACCOUT_ADDRESS' --password node1/password.txt --mine
Result, never ending DAG epoch generation:
INFO [03-05|18:00:40] Starting mining operation
INFO [03-05|18:00:40] Commit new mining work number=1 txs=0 uncles=0 elapsed=326.442µs
INFO [03-05|18:04:05] Generating DAG in progress epoch=0 percentage=27 elapsed=3m23.916s
INFO [03-05|18:04:12] Generating DAG in progress epoch=0 percentage=28 elapsed=3m31.173s
INFO [03-05|18:04:19] Generating DAG in progress epoch=0 percentage=29 elapsed=3m38.177s
INFO [03-05|18:04:26] Generating DAG in progress epoch=0 percentage=30 elapsed=3m44.764s
INFO [03-05|18:04:33] Generating DAG in progress epoch=0 percentage=31 elapsed=3m51.474s
INFO [03-05|18:04:40] Generating DAG in progress epoch=0 percentage=32 elapsed=3m58.865s
INFO [03-05|18:04:47] Generating DAG in progress epoch=0 percentage=33 elapsed=4m6.189s
INFO [03-05|18:04:54] Generating DAG in progress epoch=0 percentage=34 elapsed=4m12.615s
INFO [03-05|18:05:01] Generating DAG in progress epoch=0 percentage=35 elapsed=4m19.675s
INFO [03-05|18:05:09] Generating DAG in progress epoch=0 percentage=36 elapsed=4m27.605s
INFO [03-05|18:05:16] Generating DAG in progress epoch=0 percentage=37 elapsed=4m34.935s