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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 02:29:02 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: recommended way to crack a descrypt hash in a multi-gpu
setup (HD 7990)
On 2014-04-23 01:30, yungai wrote:
> in recent thread I read about the --fork feature in conjunction with
> GPUs but simply trying --fork=2 didn't work for me (running a current
> bleeding-jumbo git version).
>
> So I wanted to ask you what the recommended way to crack a hash with
> multiple GPUs currently is?
You need to supply a list of devices. Use --list=opencl-devices to see
the device numbers:
$ ../run/john --list=opencl-devices
(...)
Platform #2 name: NVIDIA CUDA
Platform version: OpenCL 1.1 CUDA 4.2.1
Device #0 (5) name: GeForce GTX TITAN
(...)
The numbers you need are the ones between parens, in the above example
it's 5. You probably have 0 and 1. So you'd do this:
./john -fork=2 -dev=0,1 -format=descrypt-opencl ...
or just use the shortcut for "all GPUs":
./john -fork=2 -dev=GPU -format=descrypt-opencl ...
> What kind of performance can one expect when cracking descrypt on a HD
> 7990? I remember seeing benchmarks on john-dev(?) with ~102000 Kc/s but
> I can't seem to find that benchmark anymore
Performance has varied a lot over time with different driver versions.
For a long period, AMD driver only got slower but I think the situation
is better now.
> I get on my HD 7990 (with device 0):
> ~47000 Kc/s
That would be the "many salts" benchmark figure. Attacking just one salt
will be more like 36000Kc/s.
> so that would be near the value I remembered if you multiply that by two
> for the second GPU.
Yes. You might be able to push it a little with some LWS/GWS tuning,
sacrificing responsiveness. See doc/README-OPENCL
magnum
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