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Message-ID: <f66289b45487145ef64df6d14255c81d@smtp.hushmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 00:22:32 +0200 From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com> To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: Memory leak in regex mode On 2015-05-27 23:52, Marek Wrzosek wrote: > Hi > > Today I fortunately was running top in one of terminal and I've observed > that john with --loopback and --regex is using almost all memory. I've > just found another pretext for dropping librexgen. ;-) Perhaps you confused virtual memory with actually used RAM? Wordlist and loopback modes normally memory-map stuff. It's not "using" memory more than the normal OS caches are. That is, unless someone needs it, let's use it. magnum
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