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Message-ID: <a77a209199125712f98e2a8fc3561ad2@smtp.hushmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 08:07:44 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: System freeze while building john(bleeding) on Laptop.
On 2014-10-22 08:03, Sayantan Datta wrote:
> Using: make clean --makefile=Makefile.legacy linux-x86-64-opencl.
>
> The build process use all cores and RAM usage hits alarming levels,
> spilling over to swap space. The HDD may not be such a good conditions and
> might be the cause of system hangs.
>
> Is there a way to minimize the number of core use and memory use during
> build process?
The command you mentioned should only use one core. I have no idea what
happens (sounds like a loop) but legacy builds are almost not supported
anymore. Use ./configure and just "make -s" instead. For four cores
you'd add -j4 too.
magnum
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