Session recovery with multiple gpu's
#1
Hi forum,

Is it possible to use session recovery when you're using multiple GPU's?
I was trying it out with a 3gb wordlist and a ruleset , a 10gpu rig and the checkpoint quit option. It stopped at progress 3% even though recovery progress was set to about 1,3%. 

Any experiences on this? Could it be that it doesn't register all the already done hashes?(due to the tasks being split into groups per gpu)

Thanks in advance!
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#2
Session restores work checkpoint-based. hashcat will always continue from the last reached checkpoint on. If that one happens to have been a while back that's simply what it is.
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#3
(02-16-2020, 03:20 PM)undeath Wrote: Session restores work checkpoint-based. hashcat will always continue from the last reached checkpoint on. If that one happens to have been a while back that's simply what it is.

But does a multi GPU system affect this? Since I clicked the C button to stop at the next checkpoint when this happened.
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#4
More GPUs means more parallelization means more variance between reaching checkpoints. Pressing C stops after some new checkpoint has been reached, but that still means that devices working already on a later checkpoint will not be tracked.
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(02-16-2020, 10:50 PM)undeath Wrote: More GPUs means more parallelization means more variance between reaching checkpoints. Pressing C stops after some new checkpoint has been reached, but that still means that devices working already on a later checkpoint will not be tracked.

Ahh I see, thanks!
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