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Is cudaHashcat slower without a desktop manager? - fonestar - 05-11-2016
I recently removed gdm3 from my The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali) 2.0 install as I planned on mainly running this machine headless. I seem to recall getting closer to 200 kH/s between my 2 Nvidia GeForce GTX750TI's. Now it seems to do around 110 kH/s between the 2 of them. I could be remembering this wrong as it's been awhile since I fired up cudaHashcat but I'm pretty sure I am seeing the cards run slower. Would there be anything in gdm3 allowing the cards to run faster?
RE: Is cudaHashcat slower without a desktop manager? - epixoip - 05-11-2016
You still need to run an X server even on headless machines in order to apply the timeout patch and set the appropriate perf level.
https://github.com/stricture/nvidia-drivers/blob/master/debian/templates/nvidia-graphics-drivers.postinst.in#L219-L224
RE: Is cudaHashcat slower without a desktop manager? - fonestar - 05-11-2016
Okay thanks again. It's still working, just a little slower.