On Tuesday 15 October 2002 09:04 am, Douglas Baggett wrote:
> Has anybody had any experience in using Nessus in conjunction with
> OpenMOSIX? I was thinking that it might be a good way to speed up the
> scan since nessus likes to fork off alot of instances of nmap and
> itself.....

It works, but doesnt really give the performance jump you would expect. 
Since most of the processes are I/O (networking and communication with 
the parent process) there is a ton of overhead involved in spawning off 
and load balancing those procs. If you want to give it a shot, I 
recommend you put two NIC's in each machine and supply a dedicated switch 
for the MOSIX backend network.
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