Stuck at 60% with GPU plotter



  • @haitch

    thank you very mutch for your help,... thank´s...

    if i need help to plot all drives at the same time can i resquest help here ?? i continue without understand the lines of "nonces"



  • anybody here speak portuguese to translate how i can make multiple ploting external disk´s at same time , i have try to translate in google, but very words dont are translated... :(


  • admin

    @burstcoinPT Not a Portuguese speaker sorry, but using the GPU plotter to do multiple files at once, you just specify multiple targets on the command line. From one of my plotting files, here is an example:

    gpuplotgenerator generate direct d:\4401562696129194441_695262976_2097152_8192 e:\4401562696129194441_697360128_2097152_8192 f:\4401562696129194441_699457280_2097152_8192

    You can add additional files as desired. But with just 8GB of RAM, change that last numer 8192 to 4096 or lower - if 4096 doesn't work thry 2048 then 1024.

    H.



  • @haitch

    ok, GPU ( incorporated in my processador AMD) it´s good?

    I upgrade my ram to 16GB it´s better?

    gpuplotgenerator ###### i have to download this software and install in the my principal DISK DRIVE ( "C:/")?


  • admin

    @burstcoinPT
    a) The more memory you have the better.
    b) I've never used the AMD integrated GPU so don't know how good it is.
    c) You can install the plotter anywhere - you tell it via the CLI where to put the plots.

    H.



  • @haitch said:

    the plotter anywhere - you tell it via the CLI where to put the plots.

    H.

    my ideia is, ONE computer in my house, and another in my father house, both with external hardisks, mining burst coin, to the same burst wallet, can i do this??


  • admin

    @burstcoinPT Yep, just make sure the plots don't overlap. Start the the plots at one location at the 0 nonce, the other location at say the 100,000,000 nonce mark. Each nonce is unique, but if you have overlapping ranges, then the space is wasted on one of your plots.

    H.



  • then it is best to make all the plots on one computer first, and then then divide them by two computers? for example, if I make a portion at a time through the burst windows client they will overlap when you another installment on the next disc, or as it is all done on the same computer will be a follow-up in the process of the plots?



  • @luxe I have read up and watched riskys video several times, but i keep getting the same error over and over again, but i can't find anywhere what it is or how to solve it !

    And no im not trying to compile it myself, i just thought you had to go there to change your platform for windows and to change that you are using winx64, but i see now you make the setup in the .bet file ( gpuPlotGenerator setup) i see now that you shouldn't have to do that, but the error i get every time is " [ERROR][-36][CL_INVALID_COMMAND_QUEUE] Error in step2 kernel finish "


  • admin

    @Krypton
    Did you install openCL for you nvidea?! https://developer.nvidia.com/opencl
    It is not included in the normal GPU drivers!
    If you did, i fear i can not help you there.



  • @luxe Yes i have, but i will try to do this on another computer and with different card
    ( GTX 660 Ti ).

    about OpenCL and nvidias site they say
    "OpenCL support is included in the latest NVIDIA GPU drivers, available at www.nvidia.com/drivers"
    however do you mean any specific download on your link ? Like the OpenCL Multi Threads ?

    Regarding the Error i get i read some troubleshooting where it said

    " - For NVidia owners: OpenCL implementation is under-efficient on some NVidia cards. Try to tweak your device parameters. If there is no significant improvements, you'll need a CUDA version of this program. "

    i don't know if that is really the problem since it's in the tweaking trubleshooting
    but i have now tried to get a hold of that CUDA version.

    and about the stagger it's the size of the CPU-Ram you want to use when plotting ? and not the VRAM ? right?

    Regards



  • @Krypton @luxe I am having the exact same problem using my nVidia 860M. I'm downloading the newest driver now to see if it will make it work. I suspect that my devices.txt file is set up wrong by using the recommended settings presented to me by gpuplotgenerator.exe's setup function.

    This is what my devices.txt looks like: 1 0 2048 256 8192. The platform and ID is correct, but I wish someone could explain the three other values and tell me if they are OK (global work size, local work size and hashes number).

    @frilledshark
    I would like to request a FAQ explanation about GPU plotting, with information on setting up stagger size for instance. I believe it is mentioned and explained a number of places, but it is not easy to find. A technical terminology list related to Burst would also be great.

    • EDIT

    I experimented with changing the last value (hashesNumber) in the devices.txt. If I set it to 900 (or less), instead of 8192, it works. The progress report while plotting tells me that I am computing about 6500 nonces per minute, and correspondingly it took me about 4 minutes to plot 8 GB. Is that the plotting speed I should expect using GPU plotter in direct mode? My stagger size is set to 32768, does that use 8 GB of RAM? Is the stagger setup different if you use CPU or GPU?


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