On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:57:43 -0500 Ron Gula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm glad the be_nice setting helped out. I run Fedora8 on a laptop which is not very powerful (1.5 GHz Pentium M, 1.5 GB RAM, sluggish disk) and I have to nice Nessus to keep it perfectly responsive during long scans. I usually launch nessusd directly with "nice -n ... nessusd -D" I encountered severe overloads with early 3.1 versions IIRC, but this was solved by nice *and* improvements in the later 3.1 versions. I cannot compare with BSD however and I guess that the general behaviour depends on the nature of the target network. My scans take a long time because I usually tests machines on slow WANs with high ping time (often VSAT connections). I have to make sure that the network is not overloaded so that the normal users' activities are not disrupted. This aspect is now the limiting factor for me. I expect Nessus 3.2 to be much better on this kind of configuration. -- http://www.bigfoot.com/~arboi http://ma75.blogspot.com/ PGP key ID : 0x0BBABA91 - 0x1320924F0BBABA91 Fingerprint: 1048 B09B EEAF 20AA F645 2E1A 1320 924F 0BBA BA91 _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
