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. >> - >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. >> * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >> "unsubscribe nessus" in the body. > > - > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. > * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe nessus" in the body. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body.
