07-10-2023, 04:59 PM
Hello,
I'm running hashcat v6.2.6 on a new Mackbook Air M2. I know this is not great hardware for this, and I'm Ok with that. My question is about using it to it's maximum capability. According to the docs, this (-w 3) should do a good job of maxing out the system, but it doesn't seem to work as expected on an M2. Top is showing the system as mostly idle while hashcat status is saying it's maxed out
Load Avg: 0.89, 0.82, 0.84 CPU usage: 12.3% user, 5.95% sys, 82.0% idle
Hardware.Mon.#1..: Util:100%
Is this a symptom of not feeding work in fast enough (wrong combination of wordlist size and number of rules), a known issue with Apple Silicon, or something else?
This is my command line:
hashcat -w 3 -O -m 1000 secrets/enabled.secrets -a 0 --potfile-path working/hashcat-rockyou2021-onerule-ntlm.pot -r rules/OneRuleToRuleThemAll.rule password-lists/rockyou2021.txt
Hashcat status:
Session..........: hashcat
Status...........: Running
Hash.Mode........: 1000 (NTLM)
Hash.Target......: secrets/enabled.secrets
Time.Started.....: Sat Jul 8 10:32:35 2023 (1 day, 21 hours)
Time.Estimated...: Sat Oct 7 04:22:37 2023 (88 days, 20 hours)
Kernel.Feature...: Optimized Kernel
Guess.Base.......: File (password-lists/rockyou2021.txt)
Guess.Mod........: Rules (rules/OneRuleToRuleThemAll.rule)
Guess.Queue......: 1/1 (100.00%)
Speed.#1.........: 55135.0 kH/s (320.42ms) @ Accel:4096 Loops:256 Thr:32 Vec:1
Recovered........: 2612/187879 (1.39%) Digests (total), 640/187879 (0.34%) Digests (new)
Remaining........: 185267 (98.61%) Digests
Recovered/Time...: CUR:0,0,6 AVG:0.23,14.04,336.88 (Min,Hour,Day)
Progress.........: 16609319321600/439828837126805 (3.78%)
Rejected.........: 0/16609319321600 (0.00%)
Restore.Point....: 318504960/8459060239 (3.77%)
Restore.Sub.#1...: Salt:0 Amplifier:37120-37376 Iteration:0-256
Candidate.Engine.: Device Generator
Candidates.#1....: 07747165625cg -> 0774847215
Hardware.Mon.#1..: Util:100%
Thanks,
michael
I'm running hashcat v6.2.6 on a new Mackbook Air M2. I know this is not great hardware for this, and I'm Ok with that. My question is about using it to it's maximum capability. According to the docs, this (-w 3) should do a good job of maxing out the system, but it doesn't seem to work as expected on an M2. Top is showing the system as mostly idle while hashcat status is saying it's maxed out
Load Avg: 0.89, 0.82, 0.84 CPU usage: 12.3% user, 5.95% sys, 82.0% idle
Hardware.Mon.#1..: Util:100%
Is this a symptom of not feeding work in fast enough (wrong combination of wordlist size and number of rules), a known issue with Apple Silicon, or something else?
This is my command line:
hashcat -w 3 -O -m 1000 secrets/enabled.secrets -a 0 --potfile-path working/hashcat-rockyou2021-onerule-ntlm.pot -r rules/OneRuleToRuleThemAll.rule password-lists/rockyou2021.txt
Hashcat status:
Session..........: hashcat
Status...........: Running
Hash.Mode........: 1000 (NTLM)
Hash.Target......: secrets/enabled.secrets
Time.Started.....: Sat Jul 8 10:32:35 2023 (1 day, 21 hours)
Time.Estimated...: Sat Oct 7 04:22:37 2023 (88 days, 20 hours)
Kernel.Feature...: Optimized Kernel
Guess.Base.......: File (password-lists/rockyou2021.txt)
Guess.Mod........: Rules (rules/OneRuleToRuleThemAll.rule)
Guess.Queue......: 1/1 (100.00%)
Speed.#1.........: 55135.0 kH/s (320.42ms) @ Accel:4096 Loops:256 Thr:32 Vec:1
Recovered........: 2612/187879 (1.39%) Digests (total), 640/187879 (0.34%) Digests (new)
Remaining........: 185267 (98.61%) Digests
Recovered/Time...: CUR:0,0,6 AVG:0.23,14.04,336.88 (Min,Hour,Day)
Progress.........: 16609319321600/439828837126805 (3.78%)
Rejected.........: 0/16609319321600 (0.00%)
Restore.Point....: 318504960/8459060239 (3.77%)
Restore.Sub.#1...: Salt:0 Amplifier:37120-37376 Iteration:0-256
Candidate.Engine.: Device Generator
Candidates.#1....: 07747165625cg -> 0774847215
Hardware.Mon.#1..: Util:100%
Thanks,
michael