Not sure if I'm doing this right :(
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@rds If the plot was 80% complete, he should have been finding DL's on .eu. I advised to delete the plot because it seems very broken to me - even an 80% complete plot should be able to find DL's, or throw an error about bad DL's. With no DL's being found at all something is wrong with the plot.
@TellezMiotta How long a plot will take really depends on your CPU, disk controller and disks. I'm currently doing about 10TB/day - but that's on a system with dual Xeon processors, 20 cores/40 threads. More regular home processors won't do that rate. But xplotter is the most reliable and efficient plotter there is - I'm considering redoing some of my existing plots done with GPU Plotter as they're throwing errors.
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@haitch said in Not sure if I'm doing this right :(:
@rds If the plot was 80% complete, he should have been finding DL's on .eu. I advised to delete the plot because it seems very broken to me - even an 80% complete plot should be able to find DL's, or throw an error about bad DL's. With no DL's being found at all something is wrong with the plot.
@TellezMiotta How long a plot will take really depends on your CPU, disk controller and disks. I'm currently doing about 10TB/day - but that's on a system with dual Xeon processors, 20 cores/40 threads. More regular home processors won't do that rate. But xplotter is the most reliable and efficient plotter there is - I'm considering redoing some of my existing plots done with GPU Plotter as they're throwing errors.
True enough about the 80% (4TB) being able to generate DL for EU pool. Just saying that on a power fail or write fail because the dog tripped over the USB cord delete plot is not my first thought, restart is.
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@rds I totally agree - I've tripped the breaker in my room multiple times, and have had to restart plots. But 4TB plotted and 0 deadlines - something is wrong with the plotfile. It may be that it's locked by the plotter, but I'd just start over.
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need to see miner's config (or log file), perhaps something like "TargetDeadline": 4000
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@Blago my assumption is file locked because its being plotted - but lets get it plotted.
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@Blago said in Not sure if I'm doing this right :(:
need to see miner's config (or log file), perhaps something like "TargetDeadline": 4000
Wouldn't a pool DL override the target DL line in the config file?
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Guys your support has been amazing :D I really appreciate it! as of now here's a screenshot of my progress on plotting my hard drive again!
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@rds if LocalTargetDeadline < PoolTargetDeadline => miner use LocalTargetDeadline
if pool did not set TargetDeadline (or local wallet), then miner set use LocalTargetDeadline
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My power went down again.... Restarted the plot again because I only got to 1%... I'd like instructions in case it happens again (it will happen again) How do I start the plot exactly at the point where it left of?
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@TellezMiotta said in Not sure if I'm doing this right :(:
My power went down again.... Restarted the plot again because I only got to 1%... I'd like instructions in case it happens again (it will happen again) How do I start the plot exactly at the point where it left of?
You should run the xplotter from a bat file that looks like this:
c:\burst\XPlotter.v1.0\XPlotter_avx.exe -id 8576079156750775373 -sn 400000001 -n 19075256 -t 4 -path d:\burst\plots -mem 4G
Assuming the xplotter is in the c:\burst folder, otherwise edit the above line to point to the folder your plotter is located.
The 857... number is your wallet id, make sure it is right. I copied it off your screenshot above.
19075256 nonces is a little over 5*10^12 bytes, commonly called 5TB.
-t 4 is for 4 threads. If that overloads your machine lower it to 3 or 2 ro 1. If you have a screaming machine increase up to your max thread capability.
Same for -mem 4G. Adjust as needed so you don't run out of ram.
Smaller ram will not slow the plot time but the more threads you can allocate to the plotter the faster it will generate nonces.
You need to right click the bat file and select "run as administrator".
Now, anytime the power goes out, or if you just want to shut off the plotting, you just restart the bat file (run as administrator) and you will pick up where you left off.
You can run this file on the file you are currently plotting assuming the # of nonces in your current file is the same as the 19075256. If it is different, like 19075255 then adjust the bat file accordingly.
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@rds said in Not sure if I'm doing this right :(:
@TellezMiotta said in Not sure if I'm doing this right :(:
My power went down again.... Restarted the plot again because I only got to 1%... I'd like instructions in case it happens again (it will happen again) How do I start the plot exactly at the point where it left of?
You should run the xplotter from a bat file that looks like this:
c:\burst\XPlotter.v1.0\XPlotter_avx.exe -id 8576079156750775373 -sn 400000001 -n 19075256 -t 4 -path d:\burst\plots -mem 4G
Assuming the xplotter is in the c:\burst folder, otherwise edit the above line to point to the folder your plotter is located.
The 857... number is your wallet id, make sure it is right. I copied it off your screenshot above.
19075256 nonces is a little over 5*10^12 bytes, commonly called 5TB.
-t 4 is for 4 threads. If that overloads your machine lower it to 3 or 2 ro 1. If you have a screaming machine increase up to your max thread capability.
Same for -mem 4G. Adjust as needed so you don't run out of ram.
Smaller ram will not slow the plot time but the more threads you can allocate to the plotter the faster it will generate nonces.
You need to right click the bat file and select "run as administrator".
Now, anytime the power goes out, or if you just want to shut off the plotting, you just restart the bat file (run as administrator) and you will pick up where you left off.
You can run this file on the file you are currently plotting assuming the # of nonces in your current file is the same as the 19075256. If it is different, like 19075255 then adjust the bat file accordingly.
Ok.... I just have one question... that text for the bat file kinda resembles the title that's on the windoes of the prompt where i'm at right now... The thing is that the title of the prompto has -n 0 whereas you have -n 19075256 ... what does that means? And how the bat file ''knows'' where it left of the last time?
Thank you in advance...
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@TellezMiotta , -n0 means fill the drive. But if you stop and rerun with -n0 it will say no more room. When you ran your -n0 file it created a file the same as if you used -n 19075256. Now that it's created you can't use -n0 because it will try to create a new file. So you need to change your command line to the amount of nonces the -n0 command created.
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Ok.... just one more thing... i'm plotting the drive via GUI... therefore i wrote no bat file for this one.... when my electricity goes down can i just write the bat that you are telling me and I should be able to start from where it left of ... right? no matter if i started with no bat file (Sorry if im asking very noob questions and thank you for your patience)
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correct. You will be able to continue with the GUI initiated file using the bat file.
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Another question.... right now I'm on 20% of the process... If I stop it can I mine with the plot how it is right now and would be be roughly like mining with a 1 TB hard drive... right?
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possible, but if you want to do that plot 5, 1TB files instead of 1 big 5TB file. Patience, the pain will be over soon :)
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Ok... If im willing to do this to a considerable scale I would like you to recommend me some hardware that I can use for this purposes a.k.a. A motherboard with lots of USB ports and/or SATA ports.... and a good processor to mine... because it will take literally 10 days to mine with a celeron 2 cores.... what do you recommend me?
thank u! :D you guys are awesome for sharing this info with me!
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I use a $350 laptop 22 USB 3.0 external drives. Don't need a powerful computer to mine. Plotting yes, mining no.
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22 usb 3.0? how do you connect them? don't you have a bottle neck for conecting them on the same humble computer? those are the kind of technical questions that i do not know ...
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The laptop has 1 USB 3.0 port. 3, Usb 3.0 hubs connect the 22 HDDs. Scan rate is 230 MB/s.
