Starting over
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When you are using the wallet client and press Write Plots in bottom left corner, it brings up a screen. Here you can choose what drive to plot, how many GBs to plot and how many CPU cores to use. Also, there is a field below where you must fill out your Burst account info. If you do not fill it out, several of the characters are simply "XXXXX" I seem to remember. Could it be that you forgot to change these to match your account ID?
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@Propagandalf Ok right now I am plotting. It asked me for how much space other than that; that's it it goes straight to plotting.
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@Randomtraveler This was what I meant. If you have never seen this screen you must be using a different plotter or plotting manually. Remember to be specific about what software you are using, so that it is easier to help you.

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@Propagandalf WTH...I never even bothered to changed that ever........grrrrr. So there I should put the same one as my bust in wallet if its different ok omw.
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@Randomtraveler Let me know if it helps. :)
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@Propagandalf Will do beause I really hope that was it and can finally start mining.
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Still plotting only 50% I really hope that this time it will work.
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I hope it will work too. But, you should have tried plotting just 250 GB or less first, so that you don't use all that time plotting before you know if it will work or not. :)
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@Propagandalf 3 days later and still plotting, not sure why is it taking this long for only 299gb of plot.
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@Randomtraveler That sounds incredibly slow. How many CPU cores are you using, and is it moving forwards at all?
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I wasn't really thinking so I only put 1 core to be used, does it make a difference using all 4 when it comes to mining or is it only a difference when plotting? Yeaa I am now at 95% plus my computer is a quad-core but ever since I only been using 1 for plotting for some weird reason my laptop is actually slower than when I had done it the first time plot with all 4 cores. I can barely plot and type a message here and my laptop is clean and working 100% so I don't know why using 1 core makes my laptop slower when plotting when I did it with all 4 I had no issues.
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@Randomtraveler More cores will help with faster plotting, and mining. As for the performance issue, go into task manager and change the CPU Affinitty to other than core 0
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@haitch Can I change the cores usage after I finish plotting? I mean I am at 95% plotting with 1 core taking me 3 days so far and should take me another 1-3 hours to finish.
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Let it finish, take haitch's advice for next time!
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@luxe Now when you say next time? am I redoing the plot again? Cause ouch this I done twice already and I don't think I want to spend another 24 hrs having my laptop running slow on me.
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he means for your next drive ;)
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@daWallet Oh well...should be a while. But will it make a big difference right now between 1 core usage and all 4? Like a huge difference in mining that burst like something that it be completely pointless to use 1 compared to all 4?
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Plotting and Mining are 2 different things. If you use only one core during plotting, it will write the necessary files slower but it won't have an effect on mining.
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@Randomtraveler I'm speaking from my understanding here, Luxe will be able to elaborate - but when mining, there is one thread per drive - so if you're mining one drive, one thread is fine - if you have more drives on the system, you ideally want as many threads as you do drives. When plotting, the more threads the better - but you (hopefully) only do that once.
H.
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@haitch Drives..drives. Ok so if I understand you your speaking drives as in my Hard drive. The more hard rives I have different ones the more cores I want to use but if im using my own 1 internal hard drive of 500gb using 299gb for minning is ok to use 1 core? I thought of using one core to let my lptop also let me do other stuff while minning is not a laptop just for mining I use it for online and other stuff wanted to let it do both at ones. I doubt this but upgrading rams from 4 to 8 help?
