I think there's those 2 answers to your 2 questions:
a) the status is blocked by a possible large number of cracked hashes you do. that will fix "itself" after a while, that is when you do no longer crack that much hashes at the same time.
b) the slow speed you're reporting is because you use a wordlist without an amplifier. if you do a benchmark (or a mask attack) hashcat automatically create an amplifier for you, therefore it's fine with those modes. If you want high speed with wordlist, you need a ruleset added. That will still not reach full mask attack performance, but much better than you have it now.
note that cracking multiple hashes will drop performance as well, hashcat has to check if there's a matching hash or not. consider the 120 million entries, its still fast. also partial reversing works only with a single hash.
a) the status is blocked by a possible large number of cracked hashes you do. that will fix "itself" after a while, that is when you do no longer crack that much hashes at the same time.
b) the slow speed you're reporting is because you use a wordlist without an amplifier. if you do a benchmark (or a mask attack) hashcat automatically create an amplifier for you, therefore it's fine with those modes. If you want high speed with wordlist, you need a ruleset added. That will still not reach full mask attack performance, but much better than you have it now.
note that cracking multiple hashes will drop performance as well, hashcat has to check if there's a matching hash or not. consider the 120 million entries, its still fast. also partial reversing works only with a single hash.