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Message-ID: <20150607103457.GA4394@openwall.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 13:34:57 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: poor man's fuzzer
Hi Kai,
On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 05:44:28PM +0800, Kai Zhao wrote:
> > (ulimit -v 2097152; time ~/j/fuzz.pl &> fuzz.log)
>
> I execute as you did, why the fuzz time are different?
> Some takes little time, some takes much time.
>
> $ ulimit -v 2097152; time ./fuzz_solar.pl &> fuzz.log
>
> real 0m7.820s
This is time until the original process terminates. There are most
likely child processes still running in the background at this point.
I tried to minimize the discrepancy in the different processes' running
times with "| shuf |", but not to much avail. I think a different
approach to (re-)distributing the work across child processes is needed.
This fuzz.pl is just a quick hack, with lots of room for improvement.
shuf is also why things differ between runs.
> This leads to different results. Some have fuzz-err.log while some did not.
> Some fuzz-err.log have serval hashes while some have few.
> Why the results are different ?
If you let all of the child processes run to completion, the results
should be the same - except they'd be in different order.
Alexander
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