gemini-3h-2024-mar-04

Main change

This is a bug fix release of Gemini 3h.

A few notable improvements:

• A bit better performance of operations like archiving
• Small memory usage improvement on farmer cue to cache refactoring
• Unplotted space is used for caching purposes and allows to avoid downloading the same pieces multiple times, especially for small farmers
  • Plot cache disabled on large farms with 2T+ of unplotted space on Windows since regular piece cache is already pretty large and Windows hangs for too long otherwise
• Piece cache sync and plotting are now happening concurrently with optimize piece downloading that doesn't download the same piece more than once in most cases
• Plotting threads are de-prioritized, which may decrease plotting performance slightly, but should improve farming performance and allow more comfortable use of computer for other purposes
  • --plotting-thread-priority default can be used to restore previous behavior

NOTE: On first start on Windows you will high disk activity and likely stopped plotting, just wait for it to finish what it is doing, it will only happen once.

The rest of changes are internal.

Ubuntu and Windows x86-64 builds

There are two versions:

• skylake: for Intel Skylake/AMD Ryzen processors and newer
• x86-64-v2: for older processors since ~2009 and some old VMs
• older processors/VMs are no longer supported by official releases, but can still be compiled manually if desired
• x86-64 container images are built for Skylake/AMD Ryzen processors and newer only