madmax-win-pause

A systray tool to pause/resume/set CPU priority for ongoing madMAx43v3r/chia-plotter Chia plotting operations.

How to Use

1. Download the release executable (madmax-win-pause.exe) from the Releases page.
2. Run the executable.
3. Access the program by right-clicking on the system tray icon, then selecting an action.

Features

• Pause and resume ongoing madMAx43v3r/chia-plotter Chia plotting operations.
• Set the CPU priority for ongoing madMAx43v3r/chia-plotter Chia plotting operations.

Dependencies

• Microsoft's sysinternal's "PsSuspend"
  • v1.07 is already downloaded in the repo for your convencience. Otherwise, it must be downloaded from their website for free.
• Various Python libraries, installed via python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt.

Source/Acknowledgements

• Using PsSuspend to pause MadMax: https://www.reddit.com/r/chia/comments/njev0c/windows_automatically_pause_plotters_when_you/
• Pausing on Linux: https://www.reddit.com/r/chia/comments/ojfn5j/is_it_possible_to_pause_plotting/h51aj6o

How to Build

Building this package to a .exe file is done with the following command: python -m PyInstaller --noconfirm --onefile --console --clean --add-data "plot-icon.png;." --add-data "pssuspend64.exe;." "madmax-win-pause.py"

Other Notes

• The madMAx43v3r/chia-plotter executable file must be named chia-plotter.
• This tool is only useful on Windows. Use kill -SIGSTOP <pid> and kill -SIGCONT <pid> on *NIX systems.

Donations

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