Hashcat Exhausted when using rules

[ankh2054]

thanks, the reason for doing it this way is because STDOUT and STDIN cannot output enough words to fully utilise the GPU's power.
The GPU keeps on having to wait for the output to further process.

My rules and command is based on the following article, unless this is now outdated.

http://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=brut...s_original