well, I turned down the epochs to 1 and increased the max memory by 2 gigs just in case (don't think it'll be needed, but still), wasn't really able to do anything else. maybe if I did this on my actual linux partition it'd work better, but I'm too lazy to switch to that now lmao
two and a half hours. fine. whatever. I'm gonna just close everything else on my computer so it can do this in peace, I guess.