Mad Max Plotter, some test results, some general info

hi

i have a problem . my command line,

.\chia_plot.exe n 2 -r 12 -u 7 -t F:\temp\ -2 F:\temp\ -d N:\plot\ -p aedde9c44f27896c27bc8cafee48347f83d260bb49108dcf5e97f395482a2c86ae99ab761878a5c07dacbc092efbc0f8 -f b3c96e168c46722215d8837e3ef2459c540871e441aed03e15a047a5e9603ea8768ca27e76ea3f4f8113d73aea64eebc

I get this error. I checked the pool key. what is the problem ?

Invalid <pool_key>: 00 (needs to be 48 bytes)

Are you sure it’s in the right folder? When I got the same error, I didn’t open the correct folder

Need to add the dash in front of the n 2

-r 12 (user settings get ignored, it goes to max CPU with any setting), -u 7, you sure? Yes, as stated above, “n” needs a “dash”

Use this (change (1) MadMax folder Path, (2) keys, (3) directory paths):
#Begin Script
############Plotters for Temp Drive###############
invoke-expression ‘cmd /c start powershell -NoExit -Command {cd "madmaxplotterFolderPath";$host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = “t1p1”; start-sleep 0 ; .\chia_plot.exe -p Your Public Pool Key -f Your Public Farmer Key -k 32 -u 128 -t Temp1\ -2 Temp2\ -d FinalDirectory\ -n 999 ;Read-Host -Prompt “press enter to exit”}’

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I have the same issue. There are moments when only 1% of my CPU is used during the plotting process.

I have a 3900x CPU and 2 nvme ssds.
Takes more than one hour for one plot…
There must be something wrong.

What kind of SSDs are you running?

Still utterly failing to make this work same failure everytime.
I’ve tried the fury road windows 0.0.1 and 0.0.3
-I’ve installed vc_redist 2015
-I’m in powershell as administrator
-I’ve set the Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
-I’ve tried using the direct command to run the plotter like so:
./chia_plot.exe -1 -r 7 -u 128 -t E:\temp\ -2 E:\temp\ -p ************ -f ************ (but with my pool and farmer key)
-This is what I get:
Final Directory: E:\temp
Number of Plots: 1
Process ID: 11412
Number of Threads: 7
Number of Buckets: 2^7 (128)
PS C:\temp\fury0.0.3>
It just starts then stops immediately.

Same result on two different windows 10 pcs one laptop and one dell r720 server. Same result if I use the PS1 script instead as per the videos here https://youtu.be/i0hwzkib0IE and here https://youtu.be/VT1MrCsRBNg

I feel like I am on the Fury Road myself. Any ideas?

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Same to me. I cannot handle with it

hi

Thank you for your help. Thank you for your help. I will also use the script you wrote.
I downloaded v0.0.3-alpha. I re-run the command line and it worked fine.

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0.0.4 was just released which fixes the crash bug.

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I try to run bat file. but it s nothing happening.

You need to edit it for your keys and settings.

Found the solution for my problem. I downloaded the latest version and it works for me.
I have i7-10700k, i9-10850K and Ryzen 9 5900X. We will see the difference.
SSD: INTEL CPUs: pcie 3.0 3500mb/s read - 3500mb/s write
SSD: AMD CPU: pcie 4.0 6750mb/s read - 6500mb/s write

Hello guys. DjDemond
Did you fix this problem? I have the same problem. Guys need your help.
I got it right if I run the bat file it opens prints the first four lines:
Number of Plots: 1
Process ID: 11088
Number of Threads: 16
Number of Buckets: 2^7 (128)

Then stops.

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The version in the link is updated to 0.0.4.

This happens to me too. On 2 of my plotters, on PC 1 no problem with the .bat file, on PC 2, does not run. I changed to PowerShell, and it works fine.

Install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (included in the zipped folder). It may not run if it’s unselected in the Windows “Activate or Disable Windows functionalities”.

In the download link, there are .bat folder (zipped) and the .ps1 folder (zipped as well). I repost the link here:

https://cutt.ly/ZnP9qFL

Mad what you can do with a 5950x, Gigabyte 7000s and some ram…

Phase 1 took 535.818 sec
Phase 2 took 322.973 sec
Phase 3 took 303.365 sec, wrote 21874434940 entries to final plot
Phase 4 took 29.6713 sec, final plot size is 108819097193 bytes
Total plot creation time was 1191.88 sec

Also I have re-created a plot from the plot-id and memo used by mad-max plotter using chiapos and then ran 50,000 tests over each of the plots…

./ProofOfSpace check -n 50000 -f /chia/scratch/disk02/plot-k32-2021-06-09-15-40-80f345fe03b03b0577dba0d03c8094806ad1c96f3d27bc338b94c393d2933409.plot |& tee mad-max-check-plot.log
./ProofOfSpace check -n 50000 -f /chia/scratch/disk02/plot-k32-2021-06-10-17-05-80f345fe03b03b0577dba0d03c8094806ad1c96f3d27bc338b94c393d2933409.plot |& tee chiapos-check-plot.log

The checks match 100%, I guess that is the best we can do right to validate plots?

#chiapos plot made from mad-max plot (id and memo)
Proof verification succeeded. k = 32
Total success: 50090/50000, 100.18%.
#mad-max plot
Proof verification succeeded. k = 32
Total success: 50090/50000, 100.18%.

I’ve got:
3900x 24t, 64gb ram, sabrent 4tb gen3 nvme 6,000tbw
With all plots on nvme through swar I was getting 21/22 a day and through same setup, all running on 1 nvme, it’s doing 51 minutes per plot, so like 28 a day. Is it really worth getting 128gb of ram? I’m thinking about speed, because nvme has 93% of life left and I just spent $400 on 64gb ram, rather not spend $600 a few weeks later for 128 unless I’m really getting a dramatic speed increase with my setup. Other options are a 2.5 ssd temp1, or a cheap high tbw temp2 nvme, but not sure if its worth it, again for speed increases.
EDIT: I was using 20t, when I put in all 24t, its now 46min, not seeing how I can get much more with ramdisk

I am thinking about testing this out on my farmer machine(its my slow one) but am a little worried as it has my keys. Thoughts?

There is no way to be 100% safe doing this, a machine with your private key on it is potentially vulnerable. Unless you run a VM on that machine, or uninstall Chia from it temporarily. Any other ideas?