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Message-ID: <20140519215101.GA5070@openwall.com>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 01:51:02 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: memory issues: john is eating it all
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 09:44:06PM +0000, yungai wrote:
> I've got an issue with john's memory usage.
> After a few days, max. a weak, I have to stop->resume john because he
> uses all of the 16GB of RAM and ~20% of available swap.
>
> It is a opencl gpu cracking job attacking traditional DES crypt hashes.
>
> I'm using bleeding-jumbo from 2014-04-17.
>
> Can anyone confirm this problem?
Yes, descrypt-opencl appears to be leaking memory. In the recent
contest, I was running "--format=descrypt-opencl --fork=4" on a 7970
(the --fork=4 results in much greater performance at this format, since
otherwise the GPU would stay mostly idle waiting for data from host).
This consumed about 6 GB of RAM (about 1.5 GB per forked process) in
about 10 hours. I was going to report it to Sayantan on john-dev, but
you were quicker to bring the same issue up.
Alexander
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