MacOS - Why is my worker failing POW?

Proof-of-work is a cryptographic puzzle that requires significant computational resources to solve. IO utilizes These puzzles to determine the authenticity of a CPU/GPU. This article covers the most common proof-of-work issues and how to resolve them.

1️⃣ Make sure you have the required connection speed.

• Download Above 500Mb/s
• Upload Above 250Mb/s
• Ping 30 Ms
• To check the ping of your mac. Type in terminal 

  Ping -c 5 google.com

• These Requirements based on our official Documentation, You can view it here

  
  

Having connection speed lower than the required, Could lead to POW Failure.

2️⃣ Ensure nothing That consumes CPU/RAM is running in the background.

Having Many opened Apps that is consuming the utilization of the device will lead to Failed POW.

• Make sure that only docker desktop is running in the background.

3️⃣ Make sure that your docker desktop resources is matched with the requirements.

Open docker desktop:

• In docker desktop Click the gear ⚙️icon to open the settings 
• Navigate to the resources section from the left hand menu.
• Under the resources section Adjust the memory limit and slide it all the way to the right Or It should be at least 12GB based on the minimum requirements.
• Click "Apply & Restart" to Save your changes and restart docker desktop with the new settings
  

4️⃣ Re Run the binary so the new settings can be set.