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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:16:49 +0200
From: MA40 <ardeinternet@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Reduce CPU load. Is it possible?

Hi.


I have a laptop working 24 hours a day. It is a Bitcoin node and also has a
small ASIC-USB working as a miner.


Now, he also has John the Ripper running trying to decrypt some Bitcoin
hashes.


Of course I am interested in maximum power, but I do not want to reduce the
life of the processor, it is working without too many expectations of
obtaining any result with John the Ripper.


That is why I wanted to offload the CPU work a bit. (80% would be fine).


What is your opinion?


A greeting.


MA40.

El jue., 30 abr. 2020 a las 17:00, Darren Wise (<darren@...ecorp.co.uk>)
escribió:

> Just out of Interest MA40, how much CPU power do you want? How often do
> you utilise?
>
> Because as a few examples:
> -You could even purchase an enterprise rack server for $100 on eBay with
> delivery rolled in I assume and get yourself a nice hardy dualsocket Intel
> hex core xeon with 16GB+ RAM, some HDD storage giving you an independent
> box to crack on permanently. You could even VMware ESXi/Proxmox the box and
> divide into seperated VMs with flexible usage options.
>
> -Hire a VPS with electricity rolled in to the cost on a monthly charge
> basis.(I'd not recommend AWS or AZURE)
>
> -You could even hire one of my quadsocket decacore xeon E7-8870 IBM
> machines from me directly too.
>
> If you ever feel constrained by the hardware you utilise daily, I'd also
> consider investing in more or at least seeking out alternatives, always
> worthwhile in the long run. I've seen people with lovely $1000 buck laptops
> and they just hammer the cores then have gripes about how much they paid
> for a machine they can hardly use? The mind boggles mate.
>
> On 29 April 2020 11:21:48 BST, MA40 <ardeinternet@...il.com> wrote:
> >Hi.
> >
> >When John the Ripper is running, the CPU is overloaded (95% in my
> >case).
> >
> >Would it be possible to configure it so that it does not work at full
> >capacity so as not to load the CPU so much? For example, configure it
> >to
> >work at 80%.
> >
> >Thank you.
> >
> >MA40.
>
> --
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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