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madmax-win-pause

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

Systray Icon

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

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

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

I know this isn't a complicated tool or anything, but feel free to share a couple mojos.

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  • Litecoin: LKi9UzDNTRpXh8TmDaETE1K1a3jqdXedDG
  • Chia: xch15qrjf3z5m3pv3f3kxpv8fazmutfz2jghlheju25tuncvzj8xhcdq74kzlj