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Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 00:22:32 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Memory leak in regex mode
On 2015-05-27 23:52, Marek Wrzosek wrote:
> Hi
>
> Today I fortunately was running top in one of terminal and I've observed
> that john with --loopback and --regex is using almost all memory. I've
> just found another pretext for dropping librexgen. ;-)
Perhaps you confused virtual memory with actually used RAM? Wordlist and
loopback modes normally memory-map stuff. It's not "using" memory more
than the normal OS caches are. That is, unless someone needs it, let's
use it.
magnum
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