Working for the gov't is so nice in some respects :)

On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 07:48 AM, Douglas Baggett wrote:

> The nodes in question would all have GiGE over copper with 2.4 Ghz 
> P4's connected to a switch with a 60 Gb/s
> backplane. I do see you point. I have not put together the cluster 
> yet, but It will probably set up
> as soon as the OpenMosix people release an RPM for RedHat 8.0 (I could 
> probably get it to work with
> 8.0, but I'll probably wait anyhow). It should be interesting to see 
> how it works out. I'll post the results to the group.
>
> thanks!
>
>
> At 11:50 AM 10/15/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>> 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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