plotting: 8 plot 35min delay 8thread and 8gb ram. CPU using around %4 %30. I dont know why. i OCed 4.2ghz with 1.3 volt tried cinebench and getting 21400 score smth like that. all time high tempereture is 99. kind of stabile. while im plotting getting 60 degree, and avage cpu usage %5. plotting on Windows 10. also checked my rams ssd and cpu. all working well. i am finished 8 plots like 18-20h. i think its not normal. i see ppl doin +40 plot/day. anyone know reason ? why such a low cpu usage i am getting. and how i am fix it.
The only place those 8 threads are going to be used is in phase 1.
The chia phase 1 algo does have rather poor scaling with threads.
From my own experiments (intel core i7 6700):
i know GUI not good enough tho, also win10 reroll to ubuntu i guess. if i skip these there is a youtube video like Chia plotting on Ryzen 9 5900X & Corsair MP510 NVMe in RAID 0 - Chia Plotting Rig - YouTube
as you guys can see this guy using raid0 too. pretty much same system which i use. i noticed his avarage cpu usage is pretty high than me. after this video i OCed my cpu to 4.2GHZ as i said. but nothing changed. didnt see difference. i started on the image plots 00.30 and now passed 12 hours not even done first started one. is there a setting on bios or i dont know where it is about limiting my CPU usage ? i really didnt understand anything.
My old dog has 6700k and im doin 6 plot in 24h. using 2 thread and didnt touch ram capacity. cpu usage looks fine to me. i didnt complain my 6700k. its working well imo. but i didnt say about my 5900x
From what I have seen for the Chia algorithm the Zen 3 processors unfortunately have less scaling with threads than Intel. (this was the v1.1.5 client, v1.1.6 might be different)
Ofc raid is a problem. it stupidly slow in windows. Second problem is the Windows. I got -1h on each swapping to linux. Instead of raid you better create multiple tasks for each drive, and never use raid for destination, you risking to lost all your plots.
raid 0 maybe the issue but i dont think so. a friend of mine has 10rig and some of em ryzen 3900x with 4tb corsair mp600 and some of em 11900k with same ssd. intells working fine plotting 3.5 tb per day minimum but not say about ryzens. i dont think so the real problem is not raid0. Also tried swarm is working well but after i cancelled plots i cannot able to start again and i dont know how to fix it.
Side remark: Do not use your boot disk for temp drive. It probably has all sorts of things there which you really do not want on a chia temp drive. (journalling, indexing, recycling, pagefile …)