Xeon versus Core for mining Burst

[Blago]

@ccminer don't forget about RAM for both - CPU and GPU plotters

[Propagandalf]

@Blago
Do you mean L3 RAM for the Xeon processor for example, or do you mean 'regular' system RAM, like DD4? Is there any point in having more than 8 GB system RAM?

Hope I'm not mixing up terms here :(

[Blago]

@Propagandalf system RAM, both plotters will use system RAM. better choice - let use CPU & GPU in GPU-Plotter's config (devices.txt)

[LithStud]

The plotting is done into RAM then its beeing written to HDD :) with /async and double the RAM you can plot another batch while previous one is writen to HDD

[Propagandalf]

@Blago said:

@Propagandalf system RAM, both plotters will use system RAM. better choice - let use CPU & GPU in GPU-Plotter's config (devices.txt)

Hmm... Could you please explain what such a setting would look like in devices.txt?

@LithStud said:

The plotting is done into RAM then its beeing written to HDD :) with /async and double the RAM you can plot another batch while previous one is writen to HDD

Could you please explain what the /async function does? Are you telling me that the larger amount of RAM I have, the more plots I will be able to plot and faster? Is this with the CPU or GPU plotter?

[LithStud]

@Propagandalf
Eg. devices.txt
0 0 1792 128 4096

thats what i used for my R9 270x 2GB AMD GPU

as for /async
it just lets you plot a bit faster normaly it plots to RAM and then writes to HDD depending on how much RAM you assigned for plotting it may take a while (also if your hdd has slow write time) so async lets you plot new chunk of data to RAM while HDD is busy writing previous one. And thats why you would need double the RAM (you still need the previous chunk).

Maybe someone else can explain it more clearly :)

[Propagandalf]

@LithStud Thanks. The devices.txt is related to GPU plotting, right? And /async is related to CPU plotting?

[LithStud]

yes devices.txt is about GPU :)
gpu might have /async as well not sure about that one.

[Blago]

@Propagandalf
for example, platform 0 - CPU, 1 - GPU, so config
0 0 4096 64 4096
1 0 4096 64 4096
will use resources CPU and GPU for plotting.
@luxe ?

[luxe]

@Blago yes, think so.

[Propagandalf]

@luxe @Blago @luxe Thanks, I will give it a try once I'm ready.