Max size on wordlist files?

[voidnecron]

Hi,

I've received a 10GB wordlist file. When I run "aircrack-ng -w /path/to/file test.cap" it starts, let me select my network, but quits and gives me the error that states that I should use -w for a wordlist file.
Is the file too large for aircrack-ng to process? Should I split it up, or is there something else that I can or should do in order to make this work?

Regards,

Void

[purehate]

32 bit operating systems have 2 gig page file size limit

[voidnecron]

Ah ok. Never thought of the OS to be the bottleneck.
Any easy way to split up files in 2GB parts?

[Archangel-Amael]

Ah ok. Never thought of the OS to be the bottleneck.
Any easy way to split up files in 2GB parts?

Yes use the split command

# man split

A generic way would be to count the words using wc

wc -l  textfile.txt 
157730 textfile.txt

Then split the file

split -l 40000 textfile.txt

Which will divide the file above into parts containing less than 40,000 lines.
Of course with the last file containing any and all left overs.


BTW all numbers are arbitrary.

[voidnecron]

Thanks a lot! The split solved it indeed.
Is there a 64bits version of BT in the make/pipeline? I've read some topic on the old backtrack forum (

http://forums.remote-exploit.org/feature-requests/9154-64-bit-version-2.html

), but that was for BT3.
I'm sure the (un-)ported apps still are the problem, but is there any progress being made or is BT going to stay 32bits?

[nullman]

actually what you seem to be doing wrong is that instead of selecting the wordlist you selected the .cap file