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Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 15:48:42 +0100
From: matlink <matlink@...link.fr>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: John does not fork as many times as I want
Le 04/11/2016 à 15:40, Solar Designer a écrit :
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 03:19:32PM +0100, matlink wrote:
>> Okay then there is less memory used when cracking hard password
>> (allowing using more forks) than when freshly starting to crack the
>> hashes?
> Sort of, but not exactly. Rather, there's slower growth in combined
> memory needs (which increase through reduction of sharing) by the forked
> processes when the successful guesses are not as frequent.
>
>> Is that linked to the "1/3" I can see on the john status? Step
>> 3/3 requires less memory when forking than step 1/3?
> No, there's no direct relationship to that. It's just a matter of
> getting the weakest passwords out first, at which point you restart and
> can run more processes due to them staying more similar to each other
> for longer. If at some point they become dissimilar enough to run out
> of memory again, you can interrupt and restore that session (without
> losing any work already done).
Understood. I suppose that using "john --restore=mysession" is faster
than running again the above command having "--session=mysession", even
if that command specifies a potfile ?
>
> I also recommend the "--nolog --save-memory=1" options. (Going higher
> than "1" for "--save-memory" will hurt performance, so don't do that.)
>
> Alexander
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