XPlotter for optimized plots (CPU)
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I am having problems with write speeds on my drive can anyone help? I have tried messing with the threads and mem settings but cant seem to get it right. The plotter will go through the first set of nonces fine staying completely yellow with generating and writing. But then after the first set of nonces get written my write speed drops down considerably anyone know what could be causing this?
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@vile You run bat as Admin? NTFS?
screenshot pls
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Yes running as admins and ntfs
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wow that picture didnt work well hold on
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@setlocal
@cd /d %~dp0
XPlotter_avx.exe -id 4109705781501484856 -sn 0 -n 19062264 -t 4 -path F:\plots -mem 6G
@pause
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@vile looks fine, your drive connected to USB2 or USB3 ?
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@vile it s your drive. The Seagate backup plus is one of those SMR drives I believe. I have a few of them and while they are having fine read speed, write is SLOooooW... it will take a while to plot it...
see more about it in this thread
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I have fixed the problem by reading earlier in the thread and formatting my drive to 64kb allocation. Thanks guys everything running the way it shoudl now.
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OK ppl I finally got the RAM usage to be where I want it to be.
Now how do you recover an incomplete plot from xplotter because it crashed on me twice while plotting a 5TB drive and this would have saved me so much time instead of starting the plotting from scratch
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@socal when you restart the "RunThisAsAdmin.bat" with XPlotter v1.0 all you need to do is put in the number of nonces that are in your file name instead of 0 for the -n parameter. If you didn't use the -n 0 parameter to initially fill your drive and have already explicitly gave it a value for the number of nonces, you should just be able to rerun the .bat file.
the -n 0 parameter just fills the drive, so the number of nonces aren't exactly known until the plotter calculates them based on the space available and a few other things. So if you have to restart a plot that you made using -n 0, you would need to go to the plot's file name and figure out how many nonces were calculated then use that instead of 0. Hope that made sense...
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@k.coins thanks bud I got what you were saying
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~18.5k nonces/min on i7-5930k @4ghz with 16gb RAM usage. :D
Not too shabby?
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@IncludeBeer that is astronomical! compared to my nonce/min (6k/min with i7 2ghz) lol!
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@k.coins said in XPlotter for optimized plots (CPU):
@IncludeBeer that is astronomical! compared to my nonce/min (6k/min with i7 2ghz) lol!
haha, that's almost double what I get on my $350 Dell laptop, Intel i5-5200U at 2.2 GHz 4 core using 1 GB of RAM.
I'll bet @IncludeBeer is going to have to hit about 2000 extra blocks to make up the cash difference between my laptop and that beast of a miner he has :)
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@rds said in XPlotter for optimized plots (CPU):
@k.coins said in XPlotter for optimized plots (CPU):
@IncludeBeer that is astronomical! compared to my nonce/min (6k/min with i7 2ghz) lol!
haha, that's almost double what I get on my $350 Dell laptop, Intel i5-5200U at 2.2 GHz 4 core using 1 GB of RAM.
I'll bet @IncludeBeer is going to have to hit about 2000 extra blocks to make up the cash difference between my laptop and that beast of a miner he has :)
lol ya exactly! I built this puppy about 2 years ago now to be my gaming machine. But, since it can handle it easily, I shoved in a couple extra gpu's for mining and also run my burst mining from it since it can house so many hdd's. It makes for a great plotter for sure, but certainly wasn't built for it ( e.g. $/efficiency).
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Is it safe to run multiple instances of xplotter?
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@IncludeBeer I think it would be limited by the number of threads devoted to each.



