(Tip) "Pen and paper" method for finding the right staggers for your plots

[gladanimal]

@rkalla

I also see that from the logs each plot is taking 270 GB of working space, so I have:
2,000 GB / 270 GB = 7.4 plots will fit

There are a couple of tricks. Each plot is taking 270GB not all time.

Plotting process measurements

I’ve decided to test several cases using second temporary directory. In all cases first temp dir is NVME drive and destination is HDD. These two are the same for all tests. not using it (default) - second temp is the same NVME as first slow SATA SSD fast NVME SSD (different one) another HDD same HDD as destination I want to make script to take measures every second and log it to files and then combine it all in single spreadsheet with phase and operation of plotting. So, what to measure: s…