Plotting with dcct_tools (Linux)


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    Terminal:

    ./plot -k KEY [-d DIRECTORY] [-s STARTNONCE] [-n NONCES] [-m STAGGERSIZE] [-t THREADS]

    -KEY is your Burst-Numeric-Address. An example:

    startnonce at 0, around 200 GB of diskspace, 1 GB of memory and 2 threads:

    ./plot -k 123456789012345 -d /root/plotdir/ -s 0 -n 800000 -m 4096 -t 2
    


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    DCCT's old post:

    I like to announce:
    
    The Plot-generator rewritten in C!
    
    It has several advantages over the one written in Java:
    - About twice as fast
    - Support for larger stagger sizes, only limited by system memory
    - More efficient memory handling. With just 3GB you can use Stagger size 8191, with 8GB 24000 is possible. Plots with larger stagger sizes are better, as they require less disk seeks to be read.
    
    You need a 64bit Linux environment to run this. Maybe someone can port it to Windows?
    
    How to run it:
    Download, unpack (tar -xzf plotgenerator.tgz), compile (make)
    
    Then use the same command line options as with the Java-generator:
    
    Code:
    
    ./plot <key> <starting nonce> <nonces> <stagger size> <threads>
    
    
    You can download it here:
    https://bchain.info/plotgenerator.tgz
    


  • @daWallet I'm using a mac mini. I like to try first and hopefully go for in better scale.

    I like to plot for first time, I've 150GB free, How should I write the command?

    ./plot -k 689191891761033001 -d /Volumes/ArchiveRB/plots -s <how I know this?> -n < how I convert 100G in to numbers, what's the equation? > -m< how 1GB memory turns into 4096?> -t<What is it, how should calculate it?>

    I'm using mjminer. Do you have any better suggestion? I've seen most of the resource but unfortunately couldn't figure that out. I'm counting on you. Thanks.


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    Truth is, that I have no Mac to test it. You are not the first one that has problems with it. I will mark it as untested until someone proofs otherwise.


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    @robert Try the following settings:

    For first plot

    • s 0 # Start at nonce 0 # next plot start at (-s value) + (-n value)
      -n 380928 # Each nonce = 256KB. Divide (disk size) by (262144), then divide by (stagger size -m) : round down, multiply by (stagger size.)
      -m 4096 # a nonce is 256KB, so 4096 nonces = 1GB. With more memory, multiply by amount to use
      -t ? # will depend on your CPU, it's the number of threads to use - set it to number of CPU threads, or threads - 1 to make it more usable

    H.



  • Hey @haitch Thanks a lot. It helps me a lot.



  • @daWallet Thanks. I'm planning to make a PC for mining but also try in my work machine(OS X) too. I'll let you know If I'm succeed in Mac environment.


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