if so don’t know how much to dedicate for the desktop and the VM
One of the things that is generally disappointing about Mac OS is the lack of gaming support. I like the Hitman franchise but only one of their titles is available on Steam for Mac, so I installed steam under Windows 11 (Parallels) and downloaded a few games.
I dedicated 32GB of RAM to parallels and it surely eats it up when running games; however i have found that while video is generally HD and stable, large changes in picture/surroundings cause the game to stutter a bit. I am guessing this is to be expected given how I am running it, but curious if anyone can recommend solutions that I could try to fix it?
Hi All,
Need a bit of advice. I'm wondering if Parallels for Chrome OS will run on the 11th gen core i3... I know all the blurb on the Parallels website says i5, I7, but I have read that the 11th gen i3 blows the 10th gen i5 out of the water. Given this, even though the new HP x360 14c 11th gen i3 is not listed as being compatible with Parallels (no x360s are..), would it work? Is there a reason why not? Obviously, I'd need to get an upgrade to Chrome Enterprise (which I am assuming is possible on a 'non-Enterprise' device) and windows licence, Office licence blablabla, but I'd do it is the device supports it. And yes, I know Docs is okay, but let's just assume I know all of the linux-based alternatives but still would prefer Office..
This is for my business (independent language trainer), so I'd need just two Parallels licences (assuming only two is possible?) and I am familiar with the x360 so would prefer to upgrade to the new version. I've looked at the HP Elite c1030...looks fantastic but I'd have to sell a kidney to get it AND it's nowhere to be found here in France at the 'mo, also seen the Acer Spin 713 is well-respected (and under consideration), but if I could just upgrade to the latest x360, I'd rather that.
Any advice you (always) helpful and knowledgeable folks could lob at me would be greatly appreciated..
Have a good day!
Hey everyone, I'm gonna get a macbook air soon for college. I'll need to run a couple of apps (such as Power BI) only available on windows. I'm planning to use Parallels to load up windows. My question is, is 8gb unified memory enough for me to run Windows smoothly on it? Or should I go with the beefier 16gb ram model? Has anyone tried Parallels on the 8gb model here? Thanks!
Hello,
I am trying to find a plotman config that puts a concurrent load on my chia machine.
Specs:
80 CPUs (Xeon Gold 6230T 2.1GHz, 40 phys, 80 w/ hyperthreading enabled)
512GB DDR3 2933MHz RAM
3 7.8TB NVMe SSDs (for plot tmp space)
5 7.8TB NVMe SSD RAID-5 volume (for farm space)
I'd like to get most of the RAM and CPUs engaged. I've played with plotman configs and can't seem to get everything loaded at once.
Thanks for taking the time to read and comment!
plotman config:
version: [2]
user_interface:
use_stty_size: True
commands:
interactive:
autostart_plotting: True
autostart_archiving: True
directories:
tmp:
- /home/xeon/plots/1
- /home/xeon/plots/2
- /home/xeon/plots/3
dst:
- /home/xeon/farm
archiving:
target: local_rsync
env:
command: rsync
site_root: /farm/sites
scheduling:
tmpdir_stagger_phase_major: 2
tmpdir_stagger_phase_minor: 1
tmpdir_stagger_phase_limit: 7
tmpdir_max_jobs: 10
global_max_jobs: 18
global_stagger_m: 3
polling_time_s: 20
plotting:
type: chia
chia:
k: 32
e: False
n_threads: 2
n_buckets: 128
job_buffer: 4500
madmax:
n_threads: 4
n_buckets: 256
n_buckets3: 256
n_rmulti2: 1
bladebit:
threads: 2
no_numa: false
seeing some major improvement over the time required to finish plotting 3 at one go
feel free to drop more stats with your settings and we can make it better for smaller farmers
I setted 6750Mib and 4 threads per plot, with 15min delay. The fastest plot I got was 4h 27min with the same settings, but only one at a time. Is it faster to parallel plot with this specs and settings or single plotting? Thanks in advance!
Hi everyone,
I have a friend who’s a doctor and wants to get her first Mac, but she needs Windows to run some hospital-issued software that cannot run on any Mac natively, regardless of chip type. This is why she’s planning to use Parallels to run this software, although I can’t help her decide whether to get an M1 MBA with 16 gigs of RAM or an M1 MBP with 8 gigs of RAM, or whatever configuration is best. I personally use an M1 MBA with 8 gigs of RAM for school and developing apps, but I’m suspecting it’s not enough for this software running through Parallels. What do you think my friend should get? Let me know, any help would be appreciated! Thanks.
i built a massive work rig recently so why not farm some chia while not working that hard? im just doing two at a time now at around 7 hours each. wondering how high i should shoot seems like there is also some staggering i should do. I have 2 M2 drives on teh MOBO, two other sata SSDs and like 24GB of just rotational that im parking teh plots on, should i spread out plotting across all the solid drives?
what seems like my best place to start?
been running my plots on 4 threads and giving them 32 GB of ram to use (just read that that much ram might not be worth it)
Ok, title's a little vague.
I have a stack of older servers with ~12-16 cores, hyperthreading, and GOBS of RAM.
12x 3.5" in bays and I have powervault bays so I can get like 42 drives in a machine. They'll take 8-12TB drives no problem. I have boxes of ram for these, I can do 96GB in every one of them, might be able to scratch out 192GB in a few.
That's enough ram to do 19-38 parallel plots.
yes, HDD are slow, but with slow disk performance I need less CPU.
I'm I crazy to consider launching enough plots with 1 plot per disk to fill my ram up and going for a 'scale out' approach? Yeah, it's probably going to take 24 hours to complete a plot, but who cares if it's 30 plots a day once a day or 30 plots spread out over the day right?
*use what ya got philosophy going on here. I can't really pile in enough NVMe to make these viable that way.
I got a m1 mini the other day after a bit of not having a Mac. I no longer have a gaming pc so far im blown away with the performance. im wanting to buy a parallels license to play guild wars 2 and possibly a couple other moms like SWTOR. anyone know how guild wars would run
Hi Chiaers;
Let's say I have 8 threads available, and 16GB RAM available.
I have read that you only need ONE thread of CPU after Phase 1 is complete (True?)
If I go to Add Plot > 5 Plots >Plot in Parallel
Add a 200-minute delay (Covers Phase 1 on my slow machine)
Then click on Advanced Options:
Assign 2GB RAM.
Can I assign 7 threads of CPU?
My logic is, I have set. enough delay to cover Phase 1, so that in Phase 1 the plot can use as many threads as it wants.
So once Plot 1 starts, it uses 7 thread of CPU/
After 200 minutes Plot 2 will start. By this time, plot one doesn't require more than 1 thread of CPU.
Plot 3 will start in 200 minutes after plot 2, now it would want to use 7 threads, but plot 1 and plot 2 already using 1 thread each... would it know this, and only use the available 5 threads at this stage?
Is there a way I can tell the plotter to change the number of assigned threads after phase 1?
Thanks a lot
I've heard some people say parallels is shit if you only use 8gb and others say its more than enough.
I'm on a rather tight budget so obviously would prefer to save money where I can but if 16gb would make a huge difference then I'd pay the extra. I wouldn't be running parallels everyday or anything, just from time to time. And in term's of general use, it'll mostly be watching lectures /videos /Netflix, browsing and typing on word document. Thanks in advance!
