Plotting Speed Issue

[flutech82]

Hello,
first time I tryed to start HP with 6 parallel plots staggered of 30 minutes as I used to do on CHIA BLOCKCHAIN:
my machine run WIN 10 , 32 gb ram , 1 NVME 1tb , 1 NVME 500 Gb , AMD Ryzen 5
I put temp dir on 1 tb NVME with 4 plots and 2 plots on 500 Gb NVME
and have a very slow plot speed , more than 24 h to plot 4 plots of 1 Tb NVME and 16 hours for 2 plots500 Gb NVME
So I tryed to sart on the same time 1 plot on CHIA BLOCKCHAIN and same on HP on 1tb NVME and same on 500 Gn NVME.
Here attached what's ahappening after 3.5 Hours.
It seems on CHIA BLOCKCHAIN 1Tb NVME plotting is faster than on HP and 500 Gb NVME plotting is faster on HP .

Just to complete information are as follow:
4 parallel plots staggered of 30 minutes on CHIA BLOCKCHAIN on 1Tb NVME takes around 14 hours
same on HP takes around 24 hours
2 parallel plots staggered of 30 minutes on CHIA BLOCKCHAIN on 500Gb NVME takes around 10 hours
same on HP takes around 16 Hours

[flutech82]

Upddate after few hours
we can see 1tb NVME is really slow on Harry Plotter worst Chia Blockchain
but things become strange when u see 500 Gb Nvme is more or less same speed

[Unpacking]

I have noticed this problem plotting on the same Chia + HarryP SSD. At the same time. I don't know if the same thing happens with only one program at a time.

[abueide]

what versions are you guys running? it sounds like something is getting bottlenecked or windows is making chia use virtual memory. Or maybe you're running one of the older versions which had a bug in the stats screen which caused really really bad cpu usage.

[flutech82]

I have noticed this problem plotting on the same Chia + HarryP SSD. At the same time. I don't know if the same thing happens with only one program at a time.

Pictures I posted was only a test to show performance difference , When I noticed slow issue I was running only HP

[flutech82]

what versions are you guys running? it sounds like something is getting bottlenecked or windows is making chia use virtual memory. Or maybe you're running one of the older versions which had a bug in the stats screen which caused really really bad cpu usage.

I'm running 1.1.14 , I 'd like to plot only with HP , when I noticed slow issue I was running only HP to Plot and Chia to Farm.
I installed newer versions on olders, maybe could I unistall before install newer one??

Thx

[Unpacking]

what versions are you guys running? it sounds like something is getting bottlenecked or windows is making chia use virtual memory. Or maybe you're running one of the older versions which had a bug in the stats screen which caused really really bad cpu usage.

I'm running 1.1.14 , I 'd like to plot only with HP , when I noticed slow issue I was running only HP to Plot and Chia to Farm.
I installed newer versions on olders, maybe could I unistall before install newer one??

Thx

I always:
1.- Unistall.
2.- Install new.

I don't know if it will be important.

[abueide]

Yes try deleting your ~/.harryplotter folder as well as uninstalling and install new version.

I don't know how harry plotter can cause plot times to be slower since it launches the official chia client directly. I suspect there may be another issue in your setup causing these different results. You could also try comparing lower k values and testing your setup with k25's to try and figure out what the problem might be.

[flutech82]

Yes try deleting your ~/.harryplotter folder as well as uninstalling and install new version.

I don't know how harry plotter can cause plot times to be slower since it launches the official chia client directly. I suspect there may be another issue in your setup causing these different results. You could also try comparing lower k values and testing your setup with k25's to try and figure out what the problem might be.

OOOhhh...ok ...sure! If it launches chia client I have to check better....I'll try to unistall and delete Harry plotter installation folder ...then I'll try to launch k25 alone and test...do you have any idea on how fast should be?

thx

[abueide]

@flutech82 maybe don't do k25's it probably won't help. actually just try doing a normal plot with harry plotter, then close it while its running and see how long it takes to finish while harry plotter is closed. then do the same thing while harry plotter is opened & compare those times to the official client. this would be faster to test if you use less than k32. I don't know if you'd want to use k25's though since those only take a few minutes and might not give good testing results. So probably try a higher k value.

It is possible that there is a bug in harry plotter that is eating up performance causing your plots to be slow, but I've not found any yet since the one I fixed with the stats window. This is what deleting your .harryplotter folder might help fix in case there are bugs with data generated from older versions. Look closely at the cpu/ram usage of harry plotter while testing and let me know if you see some really high numbers or something.

[flutech82]

I tryed to do some test with K25 but Harry Plotter says k32 is minimum !
I put some comment on other issues because I think it is something related to my issue

[abueide]

@flutech82 you need to add "--override-k" without quotes to the extra args field.

[flutech82]

@flutech82 you need to add "--override-k" without quotes to the extra args field.

thanks, I'll try