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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 02:54:51 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: new at this cracker business

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 07:59:23PM +0000, jay rubin wrote:
> I just killed john after 17 hours, it was taking up all my processor time.  

You can set "Idle = Y" in john.ini to tell John to use idle processor
cycles only.  Then it will have almost no impact on other functionality
of your system.

Pick john.ini from the official Win32 build (DOS-style linefeeds) such
that it'd be easier for you to edit the file.

-- 
Alexander Peslyak <solar at openwall.com>
GPG key ID: B35D3598  fp: 6429 0D7E F130 C13E C929  6447 73C3 A290 B35D 3598
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