Question.
Is there any difference in terms of mining (not plot) when using stagger 1000 VS stagger 8000 ?
BIIIGGG difference, bigger stagger requires more RAM, but lowers disk stress.
i am talking about mining , is that true for mining ? I am not asking for plot
He said the mining
I plot way faster with 1000 stagger than 8000 stagger. What does disk stress actually means ? I have to sacrifice plotting performance for less disk stress ?
The idea behind the plots is that if you use 8000 stagger the disk will seek once. If you use 1000 stagger the disk will seek 8 times in the same file of 8000 nonces.
Thats the difference regarding disk stress.
The real difference in mining is that with a larger stagger you will be able to submit shares faster.
There is no memory usage difference in mining, unlike irontiga said.
All miner only submit share once, is there any benefit for submitting share faster other than if ur share is a block find ? Even if it took me 10 sec to submit share , as long as within that 10 sec no block is found , it's no difference submitting share in 1 sec or 10 sec. Am i right ?
If i am right, lower stagger actually work way better if CPU is not i7 , 8 gb ram because i can plot faster and there is no difference in mining.
I guess you are right. But for example, if I had a 6 Tb drive, and for the sake of this example I have 80 plots with 1000 stagger. Lets say 1 second per file, although it takes more than 2 (depending on size). Thats 80 second right there. If you have 10 files with 8000 stagger the same operation would take 10 seconds.
luckily block time target is 4 mins
I was giving you an example where the stagger size mattered.
I am making the plots at 40000 stagger.
Let's get some straight answer feedback from everyone:
- Is a stagger of 1000 - with everything else held constant - faster at plot generation of 500GB plots than a stagger size of 8000?
- Is the 64bit version of JAVA in its allowance for higher stagger and maximum memory usage faster at plot generation of 500GB plots than the 32bit version?
- What is the most optimum settings in terms of speed in getting the plots generated for the average user with an i5 3570k or similar processor and 8GB of ram?
