Quadro M4400 about 3500 C7 plots…signage points ~0.5s…all seems to be ok, no errors in log.
When I swap to tourist stuff, RTX 3060 Ti - GPU jumps up/down every 10s. 0% load with Quadro. Is this GPU so powerful that there is no load? or not supported? Anyone experienced similar farming?
Google tells me it supports Cuda 5.2, which is the minimum for Chia, but is the driver up to date?
Mind you it does show the harvester at the bottom of the screen shot. As a test try plotting on it.
Type “nvidia-smi” in a terminal window. Should show you what driver is installed and what version of CUDA is installed.
don’t bother with Maxwell/Pascal cards, the chia harvester is having issues with those (Search for GRResult issues on discord).
I tested with a GTX 980 and while it did work, the harvester/driver crashed ever so often and the power consumption was not great either (because it is slow at computing the proofs)
is it official client or GH?
Chia guys suggested chia plots check. GPU runs 100% for like 5 sec, and then
chia.plotting.check_plots : ERROR <class 'RuntimeError'>: GRResult is not GRResult_OK, received GRResult_Failed error in getting challenge qualities for plot xxxx.plot
chia.plotting.check_plots : ERROR Proofs 4 / 30, 0.1333 Filepath: xxxx.plot
There is definitely something wrong with those old workstations GPUs. Driver “latest” stable in Debian.
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+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 525.125.06 Driver Version: 525.125.06 CUDA Version: 12.0 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 Quadro M4000 On | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 46% 34C P8 10W / 120W | 478MiB / 8192MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 87150 C chia_harvester 474MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
That is the error I was referring to, don"t use older GPU’s for farming (until CNI fixes this, but my guess this is a Nvidia driver issue). One thing you certainly need to do is to upgrade to the latest driver, as outlined in the beta doc :Bladebit Alpha/Beta Information - Google Docs
upgrading to non-debian-proven drivers results in “HW not supported”. I swapped to RTX 3060 Ti, undervolted, and it does nicely farming of 290TiB C7 with just extra +50Wh
Quadro M4440 manages only <300TiB according to bladebit_cuda simulation
While simulation for RTX 3060 Ti
Context count : 1
Thread per context instance : 2
Memory used : 333.6MiB ( 0.3GiB )
Proofs / Challenges : 1010 / 1000 ( 101.00% )
Fetches / Challenges : 631 / 1000
Filter bits : 256
Effective partials : 22 ( 3.49% )
Total fetch time elapsed : 90.092 seconds
Average plot lookup time : 0.143 seconds
Worst plot lookup lookup time : 1.833 seconds
Average full proof lookup time: 1.055 seconds
Fastest full proof lookup time: 0.608 seconds
compression | plot count | size TB | size PB
------------------------------------------------
C7 | 14344 | 1202 | 1.20
And that would be the limit of my farm after replotting
I still hopped farming could be done with CPU…sadly, computing overhead, efficiency of Chia lags behind the Gigahorse/mmx significantly.
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 3.85GHz @ 1.15V
Context count : 16
Thread per context instance : 2
Memory used : 5338.1MiB ( 5.2GiB )
Proofs / Challenges : 73 / 100 ( 73.00% )
Fetches / Challenges : 49 / 100
Filter bits : 256
Effective partials : 2 ( 4.08% )
Total fetch time elapsed : 25.893 seconds
Average plot lookup time : 0.528 seconds
Worst plot lookup lookup time : 32.565 seconds
Average full proof lookup time: 23.486 seconds
Fastest full proof lookup time: 14.406 seconds
*** Warning *** : Your worst plot lookup time of 32.565 was over the maximum set of 8.000.
compression | plot count | size TB | size PB
------------------------------------------------
C7 | 3875 | 324 | 0.32