Picking a pool with slow USB speed
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@Gibsalot It's taking about 100 secs to scan all HDs and I can't use USB 3.0 because for some reason the port on the laptop im mining with only has one really slow usb 3.0 port. I tried using a usb 3.0 hub but it made it even slower
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@haitch Oh its working now thanks do both the passphrase and 4 block messages mean the same thing?
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@weaveR Take a look in device manager and make sure the USB 3 ports recognized - if the laptop doesn't have the correct driver it'll fall back to 2 or 1 or not work at all
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@weaveR If the drives are USB 3.0 then you shouldn't be having any speed issues then, If you put one drive on the USB 3 and mine it, how long and what size ?
re reward change, no, you need your passphrase to make the reward change, after 4 blocks the change takes affect.
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@haitch 8TB and 55 sec
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But its only 33mbps?
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@weaveR That's slow - what's the stagger on the plots? (the last number in the filename)
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@haitch 20000
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@weaveR I use powers of two for the number of nonces, unless the plot is fully optimized, so for that one 16384 or 32768. Do you have free space you can use the optimizer to optimize the plot? The smallish stagger will hurt read performance.
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@haitch I have a empty spare 2 TB but all the other hard drives are full do you need the size of the plot free?
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@weaveR yeah, you do unfortunately. The new Blago xplotter can do cpu based fully optimized plots on the fly, maybe replot one and compare performance ?
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@haitch Oh man it took forever to plot these drive I didn't know the stagger size had to be a calculation I think I just watched IMineBlock's youtube video on creating plots and he just said make it based on the RAM you have on your video card? I thought it just made you create plots faster or slower?
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@weaveR The stagger isn't critical - it's the geek in me that uses powers of 2, but if you can optimize the plot or replot with optimized stagger, it'll be faster.
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@haitch I wish the GPU plotter did that automatically for you is the new CPU plotter much slower?
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@weaveR The gpuplotter can also do optimized, you just tell it to generate direct instead of generate buffer - it's slower, but creates the fully optimized plot. Depending your CPU/GPU - GPU is normally faster.
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@haitch I think the GPU would be faster its a Titan X as apposed to a 2011 technology 3930k CPU.
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@weaveR Yep, I'd presume a lot faster.
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openCL reads 95mb per second for me as opposed to 44mb per second with default or avx is launched from burst client. i am usb3 user. And my gpu is a budget nvidia 730gt (And a single 4TB plot) hope this helps! :)
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@ZapbuzZ Yeah I get about 60-100mbps when all the drives are scanning at once with AVX but each drives doing only like 14 - 31mbps for me
@haitch I've got 2 6TB drives I probably could wipe one and optimize one of the drives plots then replot the 2nd drive does it take long to optimize with the optimizer?


