GPU plotting 10TB ... 3 weeks!? please help
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@luxe In another topic I ask this question, and somebody suggested that it is better to plot the drive without splitting it in smaller parts, that is why I started to plot this way. And this is exactly why I asked. Now, i will know what to do next time. Can you please tell me what happens if I stop the plotting process and resume it later? I will have to start all over again, or it will resume from where I left of?
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You can not resume it later ... if you stop it, you have to repair/rename it with https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/348/plotschecker or delete it. Or live with the effects on miner ...
I would not suggest doing 200 files or something but splitting in a few parts is no big deal ...
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@luxe ok, thank you for the advice. Can you please help me to configure it in smaller peaces knowing the system I have and the disk size? It would be huge help. Thx
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@Jack78 you could use this https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/338/nonces-calculator-for-plotting-v3-0/7 or https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/46/batch-plot-generator-win-linux
But sure i can assist if you have questions.
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@luxe ok, thank you. I used the nonce calculator to determine the exact amount for the whole hdd. If I make lets say 5 * 2 TB plots, after the first one is done, I can use it to mine while I am plotting the rest?
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Should work, you can even mine a plot that just gets written ... but i would not do that. I would create a plotting folder and copy finished (on same drive) to 'mining' directory known to your miner. On mining it could slow down plotting ofcause ...
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@Jackk78 Ignore the estimate - it's way, way off. In direct mode the plotter builds the entire file, then fills it in. The building process takes quite sometime - 5TB takes about 12 Hours. While it's building the file, the time estimate will just get worse. Once the actual plotting starts, the estimate will decrease, but will always be longer than it's actually going to take. For 10TB you're looking at around 2 Days. The GPU plotter was telling me a 5TB plot was going to take 124 years - it took 24 hours.
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@haitch If it will be done in 2 -3 days, it is not a problem. I could not use the gpu plotter, because the speed was very low, at around 1200 nonces/min. Now, I am using the wplotgenerator and it is working with 7258 nonces/min, which is much much better. Not the best, but i think it will do the job. I will wait the 3 days, to see what is happening, and if it will not do it right, than I will start from scratch with smaller size plot files.
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@Jackk78 Thats what I was saying though - the stats on the GPU plotter in Direct mode are completely bogus. At the start of my last plot (15TB over three drives) it was showing 1000 Nonces/min, estimated plot time 124 years. It finished in 24 hours with a final plot rate of around 21,000 Nonce/minute. With a reasonable GPU the GPU plotter is much faster than the CPU plotter - just ignore the stats, they're a lie.
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@haitch Well, I did not knew this, so I changed the GPU plotter to CPU. Everybody learns from own mistakes :) Now, since I started to plot the drive with the CPU plotter and it is working, I think I will leave it to do its job. If something will go wrong, than i will change back to GPU plotter and smaller sizes.
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Can you please explain me something. On my current plot file the stagger is set 15232 and in Task manager the wplotgenerator uses 7 GB of RAM. If 1 GB of RAM is 4096 than the memory usage should be 15232/4096=3.71 GB of RAM and not 7. What is wrong with this formula?
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@Jackk78 Overhead. The wplotgenerator generally uses twice the memory you specify in the stagger.
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@haitch Thanks a lot guys for all your help.
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Hello guys. I managed to plot my 10 TB hdd, after 72 hours, but it is done and it is working already :) I had an issue with the miner from inside the wallet, it was not able to see the plot file, but I started it from command line modifying the path for the plot in the jminer, and it seems to be working fine now. For this hdd I am getting around 30 Sec round time, is this ok? I have another 2 TB external HDD which is plotted for a different wallet. How can I run 2 separate mining operations, for two different drives connected to two different wallets on the same computer? Is this possible?
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@Jackk78 Yes, you can mine two different accounts on the same PC. If you're using Blago's miner, just have both drives in the plot paths, if you're using jminer you need to setup and run two instances of it.
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I am using jminer. Can you please tell me how can I run two instances?
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@Jackk78 Have two jminer directories each with the jminer software and a unique jminer.properties file for each account. Run the miner from each directory.
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It`s done. Thank you
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Welcome, gentlemen miners! I ask you about ambulances my person =). Plotting when I run through the purse, he invites me to use my 4 processor cores. speed of construction with the 2500-2700 nonces / min I 45TB hard drives. 9x 5TB. it is very, very slow. I'm brand new in this case, tell me, can I connect my hard drive to another computer, on which are 5 x RX470 cards and make faster plotting or is it impossible? I'd love to read the forum, but the ignorance of the language has a negative impact on the speed of search of necessary information. I will appreciate if someone generous, I will describe the action step by step, and I will decide my problem, thanks in advance.
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@Devilinbox What is your native language?
https://forums.burst-team.us/category/16/international
