Plot questions
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@weaveR It will make a huge difference fo sure... A usb 3 card is very cheap, maybe that could solve your problem...
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It doesn't have pci-e though it's a real old cheap computer.
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On the SATA drive it's doing 591 nonces/minute (avg 749)... and on the USB 2.0 drive it's doing 834 nonces/minute (avg 655) weird the USB 2.0 drives doing more than the SATA drive when less RAM is allocated as well.
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@weaveR It is a slow CPU. You have to plot only one time, after that it is not resource hungry at all.
Maybe you have a decent graphic card? You could try the GPU plotter instead.
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@daWallet I have a 3930k and a Titan X on my main computer but I couldn't work out how to use the gpu plotter I don't know where to get my numeric account number etc.
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I found a guide for anyone with the same problem https://burstcoin.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/windows-gpu-plotter-walk-through/
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What would the optimized settings be for a titan x card?
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@weaveR run gpuplotgenerator with the setup parameter, it'll walk you through the settings you need for the card. Then when creating you plot file, the last number is 4x the amount of memory to use is MB. So you use 2GB, enter 8192, 4GB 18384 etc. Try and keep it a power of two number, and I recommend plotting in direct mode to get fully optimized plots.
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I had to use 4096 otherwise I got a out of resources message? It's really lagging my computer though I tried playing with the priority but it still really lags it but now it says it's only going to take a day and 13 hours is that good for 8TB or do I need to tweak the settings more?
I tried direct mode too but it said it was going to take like a year.
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@weaveR the direct mode estimates are way off, the plotter generates the first stagger worth of nonces, then builds the complete plot file, then fills it in. The time estimates while it's creating the file are horrendous, but totally wrong.
For 8TB 37 hours is high, but not unrealistic.
To help with your PC responsiveness adjust the CPU affinity - turn off CPU 0
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Cool I can see the 8TB drive is nearly under 100% load now and when using direct mode it seems to be working with 65536 so I think it's using the whole 12 gigs now.
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It's also not lagging my computer which is good.
But it popped up with the out of resources message I'll keep tweaking it till it works.
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@weaveR For out of resources messages, reduce the stagger.
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Yeah I did it seems to be working now how do the "nounces" work exactly? I just copied and pasted it from the CPU plotting do I need to change up the numbers to get plots?
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@weaveR yes... you need to sum the first plotted nounce (2nd number) with the total of nonces plotted (3rd number) of your previous plot...
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I don't think there's a difference in USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 @gpedro because i have both and they plot at the same speed. :)
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@jervis Plotting your bottleneck is your CPU, mining, your bottleneck will be the USB 2.0
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@jervis oh i was thinking in the mining not the ploting... Sorry @weaveR my bad, but looks like @haitch already replyed to you...
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@haitch said in Plot questions:
@jervis Plotting your bottleneck is your CPU, mining, your bottleneck will be the USB 2.0
I have USB 3 and USB 2 but they all read in mining about 17 seconds to 20 seconds.
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@gpedro I don't understand how do I determine what numbers to use for my nounces? Is the plot useless after you mine it? Should I delete the plot and remake it with different nounce numbers each time?



