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Message-ID: <20161104144001.GA31446@openwall.com> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 15:40:01 +0100 From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: John does not fork as many times as I want 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). 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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