When the client connects to the server, the plugins are sent and the preferences for the server and the prefernces... all this is about 1.4 Mb on disk size... it shouldn't take that long.... just sometimes does...
Thomas Arendsen Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thomas Arendsen Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Chris Buechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[20041208 09:18]:
> On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 14:16:52 +1300, Jason Haar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > I just ran it here - nessus client logon generated 5.3Mbytes of traffic
> > over a WAN at an average of 0.24Mbs. I also have iperf installed on the
> > Nessus server - it rated 1.2Mbs to the same workstation with Nessus
> > client... That's 5 times faster...
>
> The box I picked wasn't the best example - I hadn't used that
> particular one in quite a while, and it was still running 2.0.x.
> Upgraded to 2.2.0, and the plugins are now ~5.3 MB. It can still fill
> a 1 Mb link though. But we're talking a dual P3 1 GHz with SCSI 10K
> RPM drives.
>
> There's a huge difference between iperf (just pumping out as much data
> as you can) and loading ~5800 Nessus plugins to the client. For the
> latter, nessusd has to open ~5800 nasl files (if I understand how it's
> working), which can take a while, especially if you're using IDE
> drives. If I had to guess I'd say disk I/O is your limiting factor.
> A P4 1.6 GHz with an IDE drive wasn't a whole lot faster over gigabit
> LAN than the box with SCSI drives over 1 Mb VPN. That's what I'm
> basing my guess on. Both are FreeBSD 5.3 boxes.
It was very slow for me, too, when I had nessusd and its plugins on
an NFS drive. CPU and network didn't show any significant load.
Thomas
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