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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:21:46 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: -dev=... -fork=... wastes GPU memory
On 2015-08-25 11:46, magnum wrote:
> On 2015-08-25 07:26, Solar Designer wrote:
>> Running this command on super:
>>
>> ./john -form=md5crypt-opencl 6.md5crypt.pw -fork=3 -dev=0,1,5
>> -mask='?l?l?l?l?l?l?l?l'
>> (...)
>> It looks like the two child processes that target other GPUs nevertheless
>> consume some memory on this GPU card as well. Why is that, and can we
>> avoid it?
>>
>> I guess the same happens for AMD GPUs as well, but we don't have such
>> nice reporting for them. Recent nvidia-smi is very nice in this respect.
>
> Interesting. Well, we do enumerate all GPUs and I guess we create some
> kind of context for all of them. Maybe we can drop the ones we wont use.
> I'll have a look at it.
I had a look. We take care not to do *anyhing* OpenCL prior to forking.
Any such stuff is post-poned. Then right after forking, we enumerate
cards and pick one just as if each child was a single process.
This made me think that the exact same thing will happen with just a
single process, but I just checked and apparently it isn't. Very
strange. I need to let this grow for a while.
magnum
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