currently plotting on linux, working good so far, thanks!
felixbrucker
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RE: Linux Plotting/miningposted in Mining & Plotting
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RE: Xplotter like software for linuxposted in Mining & Plotting
@vaxman said in Xplotter like software for linux:
@felixbrucker
You can do with linux, but indirectly.
Plot whatever you can onto a temporary target, optimize from there to the disk that will be mined.The temp can be much smaller, and therefore defines your maximum filesize.
problem with this approach is: i dont have a large enough temp space,i want a single plot, so the disk head only has to move once per round
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RE: Xplotter like software for linuxposted in Mining & Plotting
@Blago thanks, this seems to be the only solution (and only yesterday popped up)?
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RE: Xplotter like software for linuxposted in Mining & Plotting
@manfromafar said in Xplotter like software for linux:
yeah the *nix support isn't the best but I wouldn't worry to much about the optimising it does help read speeds but shouldn't be a bottleneck.
it is when using large disks, i want to be under 60sec read time
@vaxman said in Xplotter like software for linux:
@felixbrucker said in Xplotter like software for linux:
[stagger size] = set it to 2x the amount of MB RAM your system has (with async 1x the RAM your system has)
suggests its not possible to generate optimized plots? stagger size needs to be 8TB for optimized plots on a 8TB disk
There are two ways;
either you throw away a lot of computation power by generating the data stream for an "optimized" file
or
you pre-allocate the filespace (with all-zeroes), then compute all nonces and write them to disk, into
the pre-allocated file, jumping all over the place. (obviously doesn't work on compressed filesystems).The algo computes all nonces with a stagger of ONE.
All plotting software out there "optimizes" that, giving you a parameter for RAM usage (stagger).well i dont know how blagos xplotter does it but im able to plot optimized 8tb plots with only 500mb ram (stagger size equivalent to 8tb), seems i cant do it with linux?
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RE: Xplotter like software for linuxposted in Mining & Plotting
[stagger size] = set it to 2x the amount of MB RAM your system has (with async 1x the RAM your system has)
suggests its not possible to generate optimized plots? stagger size needs to be 8TB for optimized plots on a 8TB disk
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RE: Xplotter like software for linuxposted in Mining & Plotting
Omitting
-mwould result in m=n by default?
-kis required i believe, its the account id if i'm correct -
RE: Xplotter like software for linuxposted in Mining & Plotting
just to confirm: plot cmd would look something like this?
./plot -k KEY -x 0 -d /some/path/to/plots -s 0 -n 12345678 -m 12345678 -t 1 -a
This will generate an optimized plot with 12345678 nonces so only a single disk head move is required for each round. This will also work with standard 4-8GB RAM.
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Xplotter like software for linuxposted in Mining & Plotting
Hi,
i currently use Xplotter from the wallet to generate optimized plots by default, so no need to optimize later.
I'm planning to deploy a linux system, but i didnt find much info about generating optimized plots with something like mdcct.
i'm aware optimized plots could be generated by setting stagger size to the same size as nonce size. I tested this with gpuplotter which didnt work because it would have required imense amounts of RAM for 8tb to plot.
I hope there is a way to plot a single (optimized) 8tb plot in linux without like 1tb of ram?cheers