Start creating new Plot regardless of the transfer process to HDD.

Chia-Network / bladebit

A high-performance k32-only, Chia (XCH) plotter supporting in-RAM and disk-based plotting

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Start creating new Plot regardless of the transfer process to HDD. #73

Closed fabgsouza76 closed 1 year ago

fabgsouza76 commented 3 years ago

I can create PLOTS within 400sec on my system but it takes longer to transfer to HDD due to HDD speed. Is there a way for it to do like MADMAX and start the creation of a new PLOT but the transfer/copy process keeps running on the background until is done? Please advise. A temp HDD/SSD for it as suggested before would be a good solution too.

harold-b commented 3 years ago

The only way to do this would be to allocate more memory for the buffers that are being written in the background, and even then, if the writes are not fast enough, and your 2nd+ plots might stall because the buffers are still busy.

Your best bet is to use NVMe's as the output drive then move them over to HDD's when finished (as original intended) as @xorinox explains here:

https://chiaforum.com/t/bladebit-plotting-at-220-280-plots-per-day-on-one-system/11987

preutrn commented 3 years ago

Is there any plans to allow for additional buffers allocation? It'd be cool to plot directly to spinning drives ditching NVMe wear.

jmhands commented 1 year ago

many scripts to automate plot moving, closing