XPlotter for optimized plots (CPU)
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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.
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@IncludeBeer are you doing three at the same time? If so it looks good.
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@IncludeBeer so basically if I had 8 cores I would use 4 and 4 and divide the available RAM in two as well in order to run two instances at the same time. I have never tried this but I would assume that the plotting speed will be divided by two as well, so it will be probably the same speed after all if using the 8 cores and available RAM to do one plot alone.
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@vExact Yep, running 3 instances to plot 3 drives. You're generally right: it seems like a clean split (4 core plotting is ~1/2 the speed as 8 core plotting). But with my OC'd 17-5930k (12 threads), and 32gb of ddr4, my hard drives quickly become the bottleneck in the plotting process. Even by splitting my compute power over 3 instances (not evenly, btw, as can be seen in the pic), my cpu still isn't working at 100%, 100% of the time. So for me, this is freaking awesome!
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@IncludeBeer thanks for the note. I will try that as well for my new plots next time :)



