When using multiple Plotters, Plotman will constantly use the same archive drive across all plotters resulting in a dramatic slowdown of transfers and writes due to non-sequential writes to the drive over sequential. This happens even with just two plotters.
Now I am not a coder, but here is how I modified the code to make this work for me. Note I did remove some of the checks of the config for this and not sure exactly what other effects it has but it is working for me:
archive.py
if len(available) > 0:
index = random.randrange(len(available) - 1)
#Original Code:
#index = min(arch_cfg.index, len(available) - 1)
(archdir, freespace) = sorted(available)[index]
print(f'Selected {archdir} for archive destination')
This ensures that the majority of the time plotters will be using separate drives. The more drives with available space, the more diverse. They will occasionally hit the same drive, but unless we write some type of temp files for Plotman to read as a marker, I'm not sure how to keep multiple plotters aware of other's writes vs a write that might have not completed.
When using multiple Plotters, Plotman will constantly use the same archive drive across all plotters resulting in a dramatic slowdown of transfers and writes due to non-sequential writes to the drive over sequential. This happens even with just two plotters.
Now I am not a coder, but here is how I modified the code to make this work for me. Note I did remove some of the checks of the config for this and not sure exactly what other effects it has but it is working for me:
archive.py
This ensures that the majority of the time plotters will be using separate drives. The more drives with available space, the more diverse. They will occasionally hit the same drive, but unless we write some type of temp files for Plotman to read as a marker, I'm not sure how to keep multiple plotters aware of other's writes vs a write that might have not completed.