plotman VS Swar-Chia-Plot-Manager

Yes, see https://github.com/madMAx43v3r/chia-plotter for plotting with a ramdisk and https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman to automate everything.

Plotman is what you want. You can plot on multiple drives (tmp), then cache the completed plots on destination drives/directories (dst). Then the archive function can rsync them to an array of archive drives. Very easy to modify the config .yaml file then run "plotman plot" and "plotman archive". https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman

Plotman: v0.5.1

Yeah. Plotman config guide shows you how to set it up for madmax. Its as easy as changing the "type" variable in the config file from "chia" to "madmax" and then changing your other plotting variables to what they should be be for madmax.

Madmax plotter, Swar plot manager, and Plotman plot manager all support portable plots for pools now. Others probably do, but I'm not as familiar with them. Update to the latest versions for the best results, and double-check your configuration files as some settings may have changed since your last update. And you can also use plot managers with Madmax these days, if you want to take advantage of workflow management (multiple destination drives, parallel plotting on bigger plotters, less scrolly logs, etc).

The v0.5 plotman includes support for madmax plotting as well as chia pool plotting. If you're feeling brave, update your plotman with: pip install --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman@main

from the default config:

# upgrading chia to the latest version cd chia-blockchain/ . ./activate chia stop -d all deactivate git fetch git checkout latest git reset --hard FETCH_HEAD git status sh install.sh . ./activate chia init edit file: nano /home/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/chia-blockchain/setup.py change the chiapos==1.0.2 to chiapos # resolving all config problems sudo apt install aptitude sudo aptitude -f install build-essential aptitude install cmake sudo aptitude install cmake (first type n, then type y) sudo aptitude install python3-dev (first type n, then type y) cd git clone --branch combined https://github.com/pechy/chiapos.git cd chiapos mkdir -p build && cd build # configuring flags to compile CFLAGS="-mtune=native -march=native" CXXFLAGS="-mtune=native -march=native" cmake ../ 1241 cmake --build . -- -j 6 # compiling cmake --build . -- -j 6 . ~/chia-blockchain/activate cd ~/chiapos && python setup.py install # finding all old chiapos files to replace find / -name chiapos.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so # removing old chiapos rm /home/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chiapos.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so rm /home/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chiapos-0.0.0-py3.8-linux-x86_64.egg/chiapos.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so cp /home/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/chiapos/build/chiapos.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so /home/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chiapos.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so cp /home/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/chiapos/build/chiapos.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so /home/YOURUSERNAMEHERE/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chiapos-0.0.0-py3.8-linux-x86_64.egg/chiapos.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so # reinstall plotman pip install --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman@development plotman interactive in plot logs you should be able to see Using optimized chiapos - 24288eb

(https://github.com/swar/Swar-Chia-Plot-Manager)

Madmax plotter, Swar plot manager, and Plotman plot manager all support portable plots for pools now. Others probably do, but I'm not as familiar with them. Update to the latest versions for the best results, and double-check your configuration files as some settings may have changed since your last update. And you can also use plot managers with Madmax these days, if you want to take advantage of workflow management (multiple destination drives, parallel plotting on bigger plotters, less scrolly logs, etc).

I stumbled across this command line manager and viewer that was very easy to setup and get going with highly configurable parallel plots. I'm fairly new to all this, but I've found the Swar-Chia-Plot-Manager to be quite good in my short time using it. The readme is also quite good to help you configure the config.yaml file for your particular system's needs. I think it's fairly similar to plotman for linux, as far as I know. I'm running this program to manage my plots on my Windows 10 5950X build. I also open the Chia GUI (not plotting through GUI) and refresh plots occasionally to see the new plots as "farming," once they are ready.

I've already adapted Swar's Chia Ploter Manager to work with it: https://github.com/swar/Swar-Chia-Plot-Manager/pull/1198

Use any other plot manager like Swar Chia Plot Manager, its easy to learn and much much better for your tests