XPlotter for optimized plots (CPU)

[Gibsalot]

@Zaziki plotting in " direct mode " or not buffering mode is what made the GPU plotter plot optimised not sure about Xplotter but i would assume its a simmiler coding

[Zaziki]

ah thanks, that means that a plot with multiple files is not ideal, since they are never straight written like a rail

[pr0cesor]

@Zaziki What do u mean? If u have 8TB of drive believe me u don't want to plot a single file big as 8TB in it because if that plot will be corrupted u will end up re-plotting that big drive again, gl with that.

What u want to do in this case is to split plots into 4 or 8. If u split the plots into 4 u plot the drive for 2TB each of the plots, 1TB each if u want to split it in 8 chunks. And then if one of ur plots will be corrupted u will end up only re-plotting what is corrupted and not the whole drive as before.

Having multiple plots in a single hard drive is better than 1 packed plot, the drive also make it easy to read small chunks of plots instead of a big one.

[Blago]

@pr0cesor said in XPlotter for optimized plots (CPU):

the drive also make it easy to read small chunks of plots instead of a big one.

not sure... OS need ~8 ms for seek HDD to another plot + time for progamm's cycle (close handle, open another handle, change filepos)

@Zaziki said in XPlotter for optimized plots (CPU):

why are u using FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING ?

Microsoft have a bug in Win7 - filling RAM while caching (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364218(v=vs.85).aspx).
Using FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING let exclude OS's cache manager while reading plots (uses only HDD's internal cache).

[cashgold]

@LithStud can this be run as bat file and function?

[LithStud]

@cashgold hmm why asking me? :D i have no idea whats being talked about here ;)
Maybe you ment @Blago ?

[Blago]

@cashgold not sure what I understood the question

[pr0cesor]

@cashgold Yes there is a batch file in it that u need to run.

@Blago I think he was talking about batch file.

[cashgold]

@pr0cesor

@Blago said in XPlotter for optimized plots (CPU):

@cashgold not sure what I understood the question

please can i see example of the bacth file . or the configuration file will look like ?

[pr0cesor]

@cashgold

@setlocal
@cd /d %~dp0 
XPlotter_avx.exe -id 15973195667282762078 -sn 0 -n 1843200 -t 8 -path D:\plots -mem 8G
@pause

Dont copy my wallet id ;>

[cashgold]

@pr0cesor thank .

[rds]

@pr0cesor said in XPlotter for optimized plots (CPU):

@cashgold

@setlocal
@cd /d %~dp0 
XPlotter_avx.exe -id 15973195667282762078 -sn 0 -n 1843200 -t 8 -path D:\plots -mem 8G
@pause

Dont copy my wallet id ;>

I have used a bat files (windows 10) for some time to run my plotter, I only use:

pause
c:\Burst\xplotter_avx.exe ........file1.............mem 8g
c:\Burst\xplotter_avx.exe ........file2.............mem 8g
c:\Burst\xplotter_avx.exe ........file3.............mem 8g
.
.
.
c:\Burst\xplotter_avx.exe ........fileN.............mem 8g
pause

why the "@" signs?
what does "@setlocal" do?
what is "@cd /d %~dp0" do?

[pr0cesor]

@Blago ?

[haitch]

@rds

the @ sign stops the command being echoed to the screen, so the way it's done you only see the xplotter command

setlocal means any changes to the environment settings are applicable only in the context of the batch file, when the batch file ends the environment will be as it was before the batch ran.

[cashgold]

@pr0cesor Please help see my sreenshoot . dont know what did wrong

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[haitch]

@cashgold Your drive is formatted as FAT32, it needs to be re-formatted as NTFS

[cashgold]

@haitch http://prntscr.com/efsa3c i have try to reduced the nounce to even 200gb still thesame pls healp

[haitch]

@cashgold post a screenshot of the properties of the drive

[cashgold]

@haitch http://prntscr.com/efsbgx

[haitch]

@cashgold According to the screenshot the drive is only 260MB Megabytes - not even 1 GB. Go to the "Create and Format Partitions" tool, delete ALL the partitions on the drive, then create a new Simple partition formatted as NTFS. If you have a question, post a screenshot of the partitioning tool.