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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:38:14 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Recent github patches
On 02/07/2012 09:33 AM, Samuele Giovanni Tonon wrote:
> - i added mysql-sha1, which is basically sha(sha(p)) ,
> on my test i saw it going faster than on cpu. any test
> is really appreciated
A quad-core OMP build outperforms it, there's probably a lot of
optimisations that can be made. Other than that it seems to work as it
should (passes test suite).
> find_best_workgroup is on by default you can make it run for your
> preferred format and then suppress the test by doing
> export LWS=num
> be aware, best LWS changes from format to format .
>
> find_best_kpc is off by default; you activate it by doing
> export KPC=0 and, after the test you can suppress it
> by doing export KPC=num .
> if you don't export a KPC it will use max_keys_per_crypt.
>
> be aware that kpc is highly dependant on the specification of
> your hardware and the format you are using.
I tried this a little. First thing I noticed is if I set LWS=0 it will
crash. Re-reading what you write above, you actually never said that
should work :) but maybe you could treat LWS=0 as "find best" instead
of crashing.
Anyway, I tried find_best_kpc and it picks very small numbers (like
69632) and end up a lot slower than just going with the default 2M. I
also tried manually setting 4M and that worked fine and was faster than
2M. Maybe the find_best could be enhanced somehow.
Another thing I noticed is that sometimes auto-LWS picks 32 and
sometimes 64, for a particular format. Maybe this is not really a
problem, I just report what I see.
magnum
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