On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:37:55PM -0500, Adam Kosmin wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>
> I'd like to ask someone for their feedback on the 'max_hosts' value in
>/usr/local/etc/nessus/nessusd.conf
>
> What exactly does this value mean? I'm using the default value of 30 and need to
>know if I should be playing with this in order to try and solve a problem I'm having
>when feeding nessus a list of more than 20 IP addresses to scan. Nessus 1.2.7 is
>choking and dying when I feed it such a list.
That's the simultaneous number of hosts you want to check for. If your
server is choking and dying when scanning that many hosts, disable the
use of Nmap (which wastes memory) and use "tcp connect()" instead.
-- Renaud
