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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:18:38 -0800
From: Royce Williams <royce@...ho.org>
To: john-dev <john-dev@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: "Failed copy data to gpu" when using fork with descrypt-opencl
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> Thank you for reporting this. On further occasions, please direct such
> postings to john-users rather than john-dev. This is essentially user
> experience, and it's useful for other users to know that they may/should
> use --fork for this purpose, and that it failed in this version for this
> GPU type.
Ah, understood -- makes sense. Will do so in the future.
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 11:58:26PM -0800, Royce Williams wrote:
>> When running this version of bleeding-jumbo:
>>
>> commit 3d8c4ea17f918130e62108be91309883c7023541
>> Merge: 379881a 53cbf8b
>> Author: Dhiru Kholia <dhiru@...nwall.com>
>> Date: Thu Oct 9 20:28:03 2014 +0200
>>
>> ... I'm getting the following error when I try to use fork to get more
>> CPU cores participating in feeding my GPU:
>
> Did this work for you before, on this same GPU, with older
> bleeding-jumbo? Can you identify the newer version that worked?
Unfortunately, it's the first time that I had a CPU in this system
that had multiple cores, so I hadn't tried it before. It also fails
to work on a snapshot from September 16th using the same GPU.
> And yes, you're right in using --fork to speedup descrypt-opencl.
> In fact, once this issue is resolved, I think you'll want to use
> something like --fork=4.
Thanks for the specifics. I found your general guidance about this in
notes from one of the contests, but wasn't sure what value to use.
Royce
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