> 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.

We are both running on Lenovo T60p laptops, 2 GHz Core 2 Duo' /w ATI video
chipset.  So no issue with AMD and/or Nvidia chipsets.

> 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
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