Stagger Size



  • Hi all,

    I managed to plot using the GPU plotter on a 4TB Seagate Barracuda, and a toshiba 1TB usb3 portable drive. I used a stagger of 40960, and set the nonces to a multiple of the stagger.
    Using the g miner it reads the 1TB in 5-9 secs and the 4TB in 12-18 secs.

    I setup my old PC (to get ready for ethereum mining), and decided to try plotting/mining on that. That PC has 4GB of ram instead of 16GB like my main. I wasn't able to use the onboard graphics, so I used xplotter. In the settings there is no where to set the stagger that I could see, only how much ram to use. This setting is in GBs rather than whatever the stagger is rated in.

    Are these the same setting, therefore should I be setting the nonces to a multiple of the ram used when using xplotter?
    Should people be looking to get a PC with 64 or 128GB of ram for the best plotting ability?


  • Mod

    I don't recommend using -mem at XPlotter (only for experts).
    Plotter uses 0.5Gb RAM per thread by default.



  • @Blago thanks for the quick reply.
    Does xplotter set a stagger? if so how is it calculated?


  • admin

    @Althalus Xplotter creates optimized plots, so the stagger used is equal to the number of nonces in the file.


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