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Message-ID: <20060502150553.GA8634@openwall.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 19:05:53 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: SMP support (x86_64)
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 04:23:40PM +0400, xnix wrote:
> I have A64X2 and want to run JtR on both processors, I read manuals, but
> did'nt find anything about that.
This is addressed in the following FAQ entry:
Q: Does John support multi-processing or distributed processing?
A: There's no real MP or distributed processing support in John right
now, but you can distribute the work between a few nodes manually. One
approach would be to have your nodes (CPUs, machines) each try different
password lengths. This is easily accomplished with "incremental" mode's
"MinLen" and "MaxLen" settings (see CONFIG). Typically, you would not
really need to split the work for "single crack" and wordlist modes
since these are relatively quick, although you may dedicate one node to
those initially. You may safely run multiple instances of John in the
same working directory, all writing to the same "pot file" (this is a
feature). You do, however, need to assign each of them a unique session
name, with "--session". Other approaches, such as splitting password
files naively (without regard to salts), are typically less efficient
(in some cases to the extent where there's no speedup from using
multiple processors at all).
Also, this topic has been discussed on this mailing list before:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.openwall.john.user/105/
http://search.gmane.org/?query=trivial+parallel+processing&group=gmane.comp.security.openwall.john.user
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=john-users&m=112491291020241
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=112491292700007
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