Other than the chia.exe executable, are there any other executables that will create a K35 plot?
The one that comes with the Chia installation is too slow. It uses little CPU cycles and little temp drive processing. It consumes over 2 TB of temp space, but very slowly.
I suspect that chia.exe is single threaded. If that is not why it runs so slowly, then I am stumped.
Can anyone provide the name of any other way to create K35 plots?
Or maybe I have overlooked an option in the chia.exe command line?
Last month, I posted my adventure into world of K35 plotting:
I vowed to not bother with it, again. But perhaps there is a way of speeding up the process?
No one replied to my previous post. Perhaps because no one cares about or has attempted K35 plots?
It doesn’t look like. MM that is included only bites up to k34 (at least that is what help says). Based on how JM spun it in the other thread, I don’t think that MM will be upgraded to work with higher k-values. Although, at some point BB may be able to produce such plots.
As you stated, the Chia plotter is basically a waste of time in the production environment, unless you start staggering multiple plotters, but that is just an additional headache on multi-core CPUs. Yet, still the UI places this garbage as the default plotter and suggests OGs as the best thing that is out there.
That is where you invest in SAS RAID0 arrays. For $11 you can get about 300GB, so for about $100 you have a solution that could be faster and more TBW than any NVMe out there.
