Here's a speed of plotting question using xplotter
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Hi, guys!
Below is my configuration file to run Xplotter. I'm plotting a 5 TB external Seagate HDD. I have a 3.10 Ghz i5-3450 Intel CPU with 4 cores, 64bit ready, and not hyperthreaded.
@setlocal
@cd /d %~dp0
XPlotter_avx.exe -id ##########4065091227 -sn 400000000000 -n 18275000 -t 3 -path m:\Burst\plots -mem 6G
@pause,So, I have 3 questions:
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Would the optimized plot be created faster if I use 12 Gb of RAM instead of the 6 Gb I configured in the configuration file?
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Can I plot more than 1 drive at a time without bringing both drives to writing crawl?
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And, since I'd like to mine at the same time, will plotting 2 drives simultaneously slow down the speed at which my mining drives are reading?
Thanks in advance for your help. And, it would be good if the answers could help others reading these posts :)
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- you can mining while plotting
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Thank you, Blago. This helps :)
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@vmantilla said in Here's a speed of plotting question using xplotter:
Hi, guys!
Below is my configuration file to run Xplotter. I'm plotting a 5 TB external Seagate HDD. I have a 3.10 Ghz i5-3450 Intel CPU with 4 cores, 64bit ready, and not hyperthreaded.
@setlocal
@cd /d %~dp0
XPlotter_avx.exe -id ##########4065091227 -sn 400000000000 -n 18275000 -t 3 -path m:\Burst\plots -mem 6G
@pause,So, I have 3 questions:
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Would the optimized plot be created faster if I use 12 Gb of RAM instead of the 6 Gb I configured in the configuration file?
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Can I plot more than 1 drive at a time without bringing both drives to writing crawl?
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And, since I'd like to mine at the same time, will plotting 2 drives simultaneously slow down the speed at which my mining drives are reading?
Thanks in advance for your help. And, it would be good if the answers could help others reading these posts :)
You can plot more than one drive at a time. The nonces/min will distribute over the drives to add up to the same as if you were plotting one drive. The advantage to doing this, I actually plot 3 at once on 3 separate SMR drives can be found here:
https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/5307/how-to-attain-max-nonce-min-plotting-direct-to-smr-drives
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@rds i can add option/parameter - "which CPU's cores plotter must use while plotting".
Something like
start XPlotter_avx2.exe .... -t [0,1,2]
start XPlotter_avx2.exe .... -t [3,4,5]
start XPlotter_avx2.exe .... -t [6,7]Do we need this expert option?
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@Blago I'd like it, and also be able to specify a range of cores, rather than list every core, eg [5-14],[15-24], .....
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@Blago said in Here's a speed of plotting question using xplotter:
@rds i can add option/parameter - "which CPU's cores plotter must use while plotting".
Something like
start XPlotter_avx2.exe .... -t [0,1,2]
start XPlotter_avx2.exe .... -t [3,4,5]
start XPlotter_avx2.exe .... -t [6,7]Do we need this expert option?
I don't see the need the way I do mine. I run 3 plotters all using 8 cores (my max) with 1GB of RAM allocated to each plotter. I've found that more RAM does not make anything go faster. I run each plotter at "belownormal" priority. I can run these 3 plotters, 2 Jminers scanning over 100TB in 32 sec, 3 wallets and can still browse this forum with no lag. Here is an example of the xplotter command I use for a 1TB file: I run 3 of these on 3 different drives.
start "" /belownormal /b /w "c:\burst\XPlotter.v1.0\XPlotter_avx.exe" -id 16780867970884554535 -sn 5500000000 -n 3815000 -t 8 -path k:\burst -mem 1G
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Thank guys. I'm glad you folks took the time to continue the conversation.
Great forum!!!
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@vmantilla said in Here's a speed of plotting question using xplotter:
Thank guys. I'm glad you folks took the time to continue the conversation.
Great forum!!!
Regarding your question about mining speed, my 3 plotters at "belownormal" priority usually use 33.3% CPU when nothing else is going on. As soon as the miner kicks in, the miner takes the bulk of CPU away from the plotter even though it is a GPU miner, point being the plotters step back during mining. I've ran my miners with and without the plotters running and cannot discern a difference in time.
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Thanks for the info. :)
