yes. at first start just using 16gb and keeps rising until fills up all memory. maybe im doing something wrong.
when i open 6 miner on 32gb machine memory usage at start 16gb and keeps rising and later fills up all memory. stagger size is 1024. total capacity is 6 tb.
how can i configure windows machine or plots to use less memory?
The actual mining does not consume much memory. Plotting yes.
from the command "run_generate.bat 987654567890987612 0 80000 8000 7" that you are using to start plotting, 8000 represents the stagger size. The number of nonces to generate in a stack (stagger). And one nonce has 256 Kb of space/memory consumed/used
So, if you lower that you will lower the amount of memory needed to plot.
So your saying that you only start the miners and they start using 32 Gb of RAM?
There are 2 aspects to this.
1. edit your mine.bat's -Xmx parameter. Xmx sets the max memory each JVM instance is allowed.
2. Windows 7's prefetching has a tendency to attempt to load and keep in memory large amounts of plot data after it sees you keep reading the same files repeatedly. Ironically it sometimes can try to preload so much that there isn't enough memory left for the miner to actually function, causing instability. If you start mining, see the ram usage increasing, then close the miners and see that most of the memory has not been released, this is likely your issue. I had 2 machines that started fine, then started having stability issues like this, and disabling prefetching fixed both of them immediately. To do this, open the services manager, stop and disable superfetching, then open regedit, go to HKLM/system/currentcontrolset/control/sessionmanager/memory management/prefetchparameters, and set enable prefetch, and enable superfetch to 0. Then reboot
