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Please help Inteli7-8700 CPU PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZE #804

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just check resource usage while plotting, your system memory usage can be more than 16gb, and system starts swapping to the same disk you are plotting, bad idea plotting to system drive with low memory and swap enabled (try using other value for threads (-r) and buckets (-u) to lower memory usage; average 0,5gb of memory used per thread at 512buckets, 1gb per thread at 256buckets, so you should better use "-r 12" and lower for your cpu and 16gb if you use 256 buckets by default)
samsung 980 can be a bottleneck too: its announced speed of up to 7000mb/s is only while it's plugged to nvme4.0 and writing to slc cache (114gb announced and lasts up to 170gb), and when cache gets full, drive sp…

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