CPU vs GPU Plotting - Optimisation
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@Vneck Thanks! I was worried my ETA says 7 years...
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@BigBear Don't worry Superfriend. It will change...eventually.
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Still having issues. Restarted my plot twice because the first time it crashed midway through and the second the computer froze for far too long.
Currently on the third attempt at plotting 1TB using direct mode GPU plotting with an RX470 8GB. Using the x64 version of the GPU plotter as I have an old processor from very early 2010's and x86 gave me problems and didn't want to launch.
12 hours has passed and the 1TB drive in "my computer" is full, however now the terminal just says "generating nonces."
It is very slow and it states that the nonces/minute is about 33 nonces, which is far too low. The terminal hasn't made much progress for the past hour and it is only up to 0.65%.
The command I used to generate this is:
gpuPlotGenerator.exe generate direct E://plots/14080554188928740480_2719200_3809280_8192And the devices are setup like this:
0 0 12288 192 8192Here is a screenshot:
Is this normal or is something wrong?
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@BigBear Also my GPU does not seem to be working at all. I have a kill-a-watt installed and I am looking at the power usage at it does not change, nor does my GPU become loaded so that I can hear the fans working. What is going on?
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Try this: 0 0 1024 64 1792
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Or even: 0 0 1024 64 8192
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@Vneck So stop plotting? What is the issue? I had it set to 0 0 8192 64 8192 before and I still had the same problems.
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You know why don't you start very small say 250mb plot. And start with vneck suggest very low settings , i'm guessing here 0 0 1024 32 1024
and are you sure 0 0 is right too.
My 2gb 750ti used this
gpuPlotGenerator.exe 0 0 direct F:\burst\plots
"insert your numeric address" 14670000 7335000 1000 64 1024
pause
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Ok update, I left it running for 6 hours with the suggested configuration 0 0 1024 64 8192 and it completed the actual file in the drive, but progress was still running at 50 nonces/minute. It plotted 1GB fine, but 1TB is a problem. I am not going to be using the GPU plotter anymore as I have literally wasted 2 days with it. I have successfully plotted some smaller drives with the CPU plotter and I will be using that from now on even though it is meant to be far slower with my old CPU.
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@BigBear The nonces/min number will be very low to begin with, it's the nonces computed averaged over the entire time the plotter has been running - but the number will continue to increase for the rest of the plotting, right up until the end when you get your true plotting rate.
