XPlotter for optimized plots (CPU)
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@rds said in XPlotter for optimized plots (CPU):
I am running an older laptop and a new one. Both yield the same speed.
if you see gray line (not yellow) while writing % - you need increase memory usage by -mem (better choice for nonces_per_thread = 2048. It's <threads> GB FREE RAM)
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The newer computer (win 10) has 8GB ram and 4 threads, I specified -mem 4GB. The cmd window says 2048 nonces/thread.
The older one (win 7) has 6GB ram and 4 threads, I specified -mem 2GB.
Can't see it in this shot but I think at the beginning it said 1024 nonces/thread.As you can see from the pics, about the same speed (3900 nonces/min) for each computer but the newer one is mining also.
The older computer sometimes shows gray, sometimes yellow.
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@rds said in XPlotter for optimized plots (CPU):
The older one (win 7) has 6GB ram and 4 threads, I specified -mem 2GB.
Can't see it in this shot but I think at the beginning it said 1024 nonces/thread.nonces_per_thread = 2GB / 2 / 64 / 4096 / threads = 1024 nonces/thread
The older computer sometimes shows gray, sometimes yellow.
both computers have equivalent CPU.
Older will be bit slowly because calculates nonces faster than writes it.
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@Blago can you explain the difference between the grey and yellow text? Mine changes at different percentages while plotting
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@k.coins When ploter starts - it calculate first chunk of nonces. After calc done - it start write first chank and in parallel start calculate second chunk of nonces. Then wait until writing done...
If you see gray line - plotter calculated nonces before writing done and it wait while writing done (wasting time).
You need increase memory usage.
BUT! from my tests (HDD):
writing time of 6 * 800 nonces ~= 45 sec
writing time of 6 * 1024 nonces ~= 45 sec
writing time of 6 * 1030 nonces ~= 90 sec
writing time of 6 * 2048 nonces ~= 90 sec
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@Blago How can I check if my Plot files are good?
Are my current methods, plotschecker and running it through your miner, still valid?
I'm asking because you'r using a new way for writing to disk.My PC crashed while plotting a 4TB disk at whole. The plot file checks out so the plotter seems to have finished.
But 4TB in about 12h, that just can't be!! ⺌∅‿∅⺌ !!I was using
@setlocal @cd /d %~dp0 XPlotter_avx.exe -id 107189002634585473 -sn 830522688 -n 15260960 -t 6 -path D:\plots -mem 20G @pause
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@nixxda plotschecker can't help for optimized plots.
Just run again bat@setlocal @cd /d %~dp0 XPlotter_avx.exe -id 107189002634585473 -sn 830522688 -n 15260960 -t 6 -path D:\plots -mem 20G @pauseand plotter will check and continue writing. (each plot, created by XPloter 1.0 contain info - how much physically written nonces)
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@ZapbuzZ when you make plot (fill drive mode) - xplotter create plot with size as possible.
If you interrupt creation - you need change bat.
for example:- XPlotter_avx.exe -id 107189002634585473 -sn 830522688 -n 0 -t 6 -path D:\plots -mem 20G
- plotter create 107189002634585473_830522688_15260960_15260960
- interrupt plotting
- change bat to XPlotter_avx.exe -id 107189002634585473 -sn 830522688 -n 15260960 -t 6 -path D:\plots -mem 20G
if you did not change bat - XPlotter will try create a new plot, but you have not free space for it
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@gumbogumbo the -mem parameter is what you'll want to play with. I think it will only use half of what you have available, no matter what you put in for the value.
But just as an example, if you have 20 Gb of RAM, try using "-mem 20G" to see how much xplotter will actually utilize.
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@gumbogumbo It just goes on the command line, so from Blago's example:
XPlotter_avx.exe -id 107189002634585473 -sn 830522688 -n 0 -t 6 -path D:\plots -mem 20G
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@gumbogumbo said in XPlotter for optimized plots (CPU):
The only place I see that text is on the top bar of the window.
Presumably that is because you are looking at the actual program window (exe), whereas you should be editing the .bat file that launches the .exe, and then launch the program afterwards.
EDIT
With me the file that needs editing is called "runthisasadmin.bat". Right click it, and choose 'edit'.
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@gumbogumbo sorry I didn't specify where to edit the parameters... My bad!
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@Blago said in XPlotter for optimized plots (CPU):
@nixxda plotschecker can't help for optimized plots.
Just run again bat@setlocal @cd /d %~dp0 XPlotter_avx.exe -id 107189002634585473 -sn 830522688 -n 15260960 -t 6 -path D:\plots -mem 20G @pauseand plotter will check and continue writing. (each plot, created by XPloter 1.0 contain info - how much physically written nonces)
turns out my PC crashed at 12%! (I had many many other things running!-)
But restarting the plotter worked like a charm! about 13h later the whole disk was plotted.I'm still a bit suspicious however!-) File size was allocated at the beginning but are there really all the nonces in there?! Is there no way to check except winning Blocks with it?!
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@nixxda maybe plot checker? I look at it this way if the file is to cover whole hdd then it would show no free space. So something has to be there. Plus its a file not a partition so some data must be there if it taking up space.





