bismark, please check your motherboard bios version and the kernel version. there are a few known issues with apic irq polling using one logical hyperthreaded CPU versus all for some AMD boards with NVIDIA chipsets. Please post your MB chip-set and kernel information.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Ron Gula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Have you tried looking at CPU, Ram usage, Load etc etc... Is > your > >> CPU flat out? RAM usage is nominal, CPU usage is about > >> 50% on both processors. Right now running a scan I've got some > >> responsiveness but it will go away at some point. Is the IO > >> usage spiking at some point to cause an increase in the load ? > > > > IO load seems to barely go up while a scan is running. This is from > > observation of the drive lights, haven't run an iostat though. > > > > The be_nice = yes change in my nessusd.conf file has made a HUGE change > in > > responsiveness. Still not anywhere near the FreeBSD setup but at least > I > > can run 30/20 hosts/checks and still have my system usable. > > I'm glad the be_nice setting helped out. > > I was also curious if the FreeBSD system took longer to scan than > your Linux system. It would be interesting to note if the FreeBSD > system was more responsive but also took longer to complete a scan. > > Ron Gula > Tenable Network Security > > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > -- --Yarick Tsagoyko Advisory Notice: Email is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and is legally privileged, but inherently insecure. Content may be subject to alteration: email addresses may incorrectly identify the sender. This email transmission, and any documents, files, or previous email messages attached to it may be privileged and confidential, and are intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named in the address field. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message or its contents is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify me by telephone or return email and delete it and any attachments from your computer. Thank you.
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