XPlotter for optimized plots (CPU)
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@gpedro ah ok, my bad! I understand now @rds . I'm still fighting to get 12 Tb plotted with xplotter. Had a machine shut down on me last night. The struggle is real!
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@k.coins, I do 200GB as a happy medium between 1 file per drive and too many files per drive. If something goes wrong in the middle of a file I only have to redo 200GB instead of 12TB.
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@k.coins I thunk that V0.7 works a lot more. I picked up a lot of DLs with a 500GB plot
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@rds #BigPlots
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my question is how do I increase the amount of RAM this plotter uses cause its only using 50% of my free RAM and whats up with the slow speed? with the regular plotter i get about ~9500 nounces a min with xplotter I only get 1800/min thats a HUGE step down
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@socal I would also like to utilize more RAM with xplotter. Although plotting with this no longer bogs down my machine
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@k.coins on the command line add -mem <x>g eg: -mem 8g - however I believe you can't assign more than 50% of your RAM
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XPlotter v1.0
If Xplotter run as Admin (administrator rights) - it's create empty (zero'd) plot much faster
You can turn off Xplotter at any time, and later may continue plotting (works only at NTFS)
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I made a new win client release with XPlotter v1.0 included.
By default it does not run in admin mode - but still works.https://github.com/dawallet/burstwindowswallet/releases/tag/0.3.8-rc5
edit: You can run the win client in admin mode by right click on the desktop symbol. That should propagate to the XPlotter.
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@daWallet w/o admins rights speed the same as in v0.7
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@Blago , how about if you specify a file size, no better than v0.7? Also, how would you do that if you were starting the program from a bat file command? Thanks,
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@Blago This is great! I'm plotting 2TB with it now, I'll let you know how it goes in a day or two.
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@rds I'd tested bat file (runing as Admin) - works fine
@setlocal @cd /d %~dp0 XPlotter_avx.exe -id 17930413153828766298 -sn 601000000 -n 1000000 -t 6 -path H:\plots -mem 6G XPlotter_avx.exe -id 17930413153828766298 -sn 602000000 -n 1000000 -t 6 -path H:\plots -mem 6G @pausetime generating first plot - 3 hrs 17 min
time generating second plot - 3 hrs 24 min
(miner was running)
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@zyzzyva 2Tb = 25 hrs for me (5120 nonces/min)
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@Blago Unfortunately I have to plot this drive on my work computer, so I'm only using 2 threads and getting about 2800 nonces/min. Hoping for < 48 hours!
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@Blago, never sawthe @ signs in the cmd window. Is that what make it administrator? What command in the bat file tells the computer to go admin? Thanks.
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@rds The @ signs in the bat file just prevent those commands showing on the screen. To run the bat as administrator, in Explorer, or on a shortcut, right click and select "Run as Administrator"
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@Blago, I must be doing something wrong!! :(
Granted I started this file with V0.7 because I just saw last night about V1.0. I started a 200GB file last night around 11:00pm it is now approaching 24 hours and it is not done yet. 765962 of 819200 nonces complete. I don't have the fanciest computer but the program reported 1024 nonces per thread. 2048MB of memory used of 4144MB free. The computer has 8GB but I'm mining with it as well. The program did the first run with 8192 nonce then started rolling after that. TaskMgr shows the xplotter is using 2053. MB of memory.
Here was the bat file that started the program:
pause
c:\burst\XPlotterV0.7\XPlotter_avx.exe -id 15660867970884543098 -sn 907168001 -n 819200 -t 4 -path p:\burst
c:\burst\XPlotterV0.7\XPlotter_avx.exe -id 15660867970884543098 -sn 907987201 -n 819200 -t 4 -path p:\burst
c:\burst\XPlotterV0.7\XPlotter_avx.exe -id 15660867970884543098 -sn 908806401 -n 819200 -t 4 -path p:\burst
c:\burst\XPlotterV0.7\XPlotter_avx.exe -id 15660867970884543098 -sn 909625601 -n 819200 -t 4 -path p:\burst
c:\burst\XPlotterV0.7\XPlotter_avx.exe -id 15660867970884543098 -sn 910444801 -n 819200 -t 4 -path p:\burst
c:\burst\XPlotterV0.7\XPlotter_avx.exe -id 15660867970884543098 -sn 911264001 -n 819200 -t 4 -path p:\burst
c:\burst\XPlotterV0.7\XPlotter_avx.exe -id 15660867970884543098 -sn 912083201 -n 819200 -t 4 -path p:\burst
pause
cmd.exeNeedless to say I'm going to stop the bat file after the first file is done.
I will try the V1.0 tonight on a 200GB file. If I get the same result I am going back to the old plotter.
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@rds
After the first file is done, close Xplotter v.0.7, update plotter, change bat filec:\burst\XPlotterV1.0\XPlotter_avx.exe -id 15660867970884543098 -sn 907987201 -n 819200 -t 4 -path p:\burst c:\burst\XPlotterV1.0\XPlotter_avx.exe -id 15660867970884543098 -sn 908806401 -n 819200 -t 4 -path p:\burst c:\burst\XPlotterV1.0\XPlotter_avx.exe -id 15660867970884543098 -sn 909625601 -n 819200 -t 4 -path p:\burst c:\burst\XPlotterV1.0\XPlotter_avx.exe -id 15660867970884543098 -sn 910444801 -n 819200 -t 4 -path p:\burst c:\burst\XPlotterV1.0\XPlotter_avx.exe -id 15660867970884543098 -sn 911264001 -n 819200 -t 4 -path p:\burst c:\burst\XPlotterV1.0\XPlotter_avx.exe -id 15660867970884543098 -sn 912083201 -n 819200 -t 4 -path p:\burst pauserun bat as Admin.
***by default XPlotter uses nonces per thread = 1024 as it's the fastest size for writing at Windows (64KB chunks)
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So the v0.7 file took about 24hrs for 200GB. I ran as administrator the v1.0 and asked for 4gb memory. The file is running nicely and based on the %done, it looks like 3-3.5 hours per 200gb. About the same or maybe even a bit faster than the wplotgenerator and optimizer. Good job, thanks for all your help.


