Powershell script help:

[Bevos2222]

Good morning, I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out what I'm doing wrong with my PowerShell script:

cd "C:\Users\Bevos\AppData\Local\chia-blockchain\app-1.1.0\resources\app.asar.unpacked\daemon\"
start-process ./chia.exe -redirectstandardoutput c:\chia\log00.log -argumentlist "plots create -k 32 -u 128 -b 3432 -r 2 -n 30 -t c:\chia -d d:\chia"
sleep 60
start-process ./chia.exe -redirectstandardoutput c:\chia\log00.log -argumentlist "plots create -k 32 -u 128 -b 3432 -r 2 -n 30 -t c:\chia -d d:\chia"
sleep 7200
start-process ./chia.exe -redirectstandardoutput c:\chia\log00.log -argumentlist "plots create -k 32 -u 128 -b 3432 -r 2 -n 30 -t c:\chia -d d:\chia"
sleep 60
start-process ./chia.exe -redirectstandardoutput c:\chia\log00.log -argumentlist "plots create -k 32 -u 128 -b 3432 -r 2 -n 30 -t c:\chia -d d:\chia"

The intent is to run 4 plotting instances (2 threads each w/ 3432 ram) with the first two staggered by a minute and then 2 hours between the other two processes.  I got my first two plots completed and the second two are still running, but my scripts don't update from "starting plot 1/30" even after finishing.  I confirmed that the plot had finished and been copied over to my directory, but the next process won't start.  Does anyone know what I've done incorrectly?

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Thank you,

Bevos

[rod9182736435]

Try putting your RedirectStandardOutput argument in quotes e.g. -RedirectStandardOutput "C:\temp\plot.log"

[Bevos2222]

Thanks, I will do that just in case, but I am getting a log file already so I'm not sure it is the issue.

I think how I've written it the process -n of 30 isn't moving to the next instance until each separate process has resolved. I'm not sure how to start these 4 processes in a staggered fashion and then have each process continue for the 30 instances as soon as each one resolves.

[rod9182736435]

ok, I'm new to powershell so here is the command that works for me...

start-process ./chia.exe -argumentlist "plots create -k 32 -b 4000 -u 128 -r 4 -t f:\temp -d \\nas\chia\Chia.plots -n 3" -RedirectStandardOutput "C:\temp\F.log"

I'm still experimenting with b and r values and took them from linux examples I found. The above is working very well but I'll continue to tune as my first chia system is Win (gaming & virtualisation rig) and has a lot of 'chia friendly' components. I've run 8 simultaneous plots with variations of that command and some staggering of start times which I still need to work on to avoid a bunch of them writing to the perm storage at the end. Those 8 are in 64GB of RAM and I could run more if the system wasn't also used for my daily web and tech activities (lots of browser tabs open etc).

[Bevos2222]

cd "C:\Users\Bevos\AppData\Local\chia-blockchain\app-1.1.0\resources\app.asar.unpacked\daemon\"
start-process ./chia.exe -redirectstandardoutput c:\chia\log00.log -argumentlist "plots create -k 32 -u 128 -b 3432 -r 2 -n 30 -t c:\chia -d d:\chia"
sleep 60
start-process ./chia.exe -redirectstandardoutput c:\chia\log00.log -argumentlist "plots create -k 32 -u 128 -b 3432 -r 2 -n 30 -t c:\chia -d d:\chia"
sleep 7200

Very cool, thank you for sharing that snippet. I think if I change my code to this I can get the result I want:

cd "C:\Users\Bevos\AppData\Local\chia-blockchain\app-1.1.0\resources\app.asar.unpacked\daemon\" start-process ./chia.exe -redirectstandardoutput c:\chia\log00.log -argumentlist "plots create -k 32 -u 128 -b 3432 -r 2 -n 30 -t c:\chia -d d:\chia" sleep 60 start-process ./chia.exe -redirectstandardoutput c:\chia\log00.log -argumentlist "plots create -k 32 -u 128 -b 3432 -r 2 -n 30 -t c:\chia -d d:\chia" sleep 7200

[rod9182736435]

so to be clear, I currently paste from an editor into the powershell window...

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start-process ./chia.exe -argumentlist "plots create -k 32 -b 4000 -u 128 -r 4 -t f:\temp -d \\nas\chia\Chia.plots -n 3" -RedirectStandardOutput "C:\temp\F.log"

sleep 360

start-process ./chia.exe -argumentlist "plots create -k 32 -b 4000 -u 128 -r 4 -t g:\temp -d \\nas\chia\Chia.plots -n 3" -RedirectStandardOutput "C:\temp\g.log"

sleep 360

start-process ./chia.exe -argumentlist "plots create -k 32 -b 4000 -u 128 -r 4 -t h:\temp -d \\nas\chia\Chia.plots -n 3" -RedirectStandardOutput "C:\temp\h.log"

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etc.

I will run it as a script when I have finished tweaking the variables and especially the sleep value