Hi Mike,
An official FreeBSD 7 build has been released and is now available on
nessus.org. Please try it and let me know if you still encounter this
cpu usage issue.
Thanks,
-- Renaud
On Mar 13, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Mike Patterson wrote:
> I just upgraded one of my machines to FreeBSD 7, and figured I'd give
> 3.2 a try (since it was just released :) ).
>
> I see somebody posted earlier having issues with missing libraries,
> well, mine is fine but nessusd sucks up all CPU when it's running. It
> ought not to be a hardware-too-slow issue, it's a dual-CPU Xeon
> machine,
> so I think that's fine.
>
> Here's my ldd:
>
> watcher206# ldd /usr/local/nessus/bin/nessus
> /usr/local/nessus/bin/nessus:
> libnessus.so.5 => /usr/local/nessus/lib/libnessus.so.5 (0x28098000)
> libnessusrx.so.1 => /usr/local/nessus/lib/libnessusrx.so.1
> (0x2810f000)
> libpcap-nessus.so.5 => /usr/local/nessus/lib/libpcap-nessus.so.5
> (0x28118000)
> libz.so.3 => /lib/libz.so.3 (0x28143000)
> libssl.so.4 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.4 (0x28154000)
> libcrypto.so.4 => /lib/libcrypto.so.4 (0x28183000)
> libpthread.so.2 => /lib/libpthread.so.2 (0x2827b000)
> libm.so.4 => /lib/libm.so.4 (0x2829f000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x282b8000)
> watcher206#
>
> Here's part of a truss output after starting up nessusd, don't know if
> it's at all helpful:
>
> -- UNKNOWN SYSCALL -1081120640 --
> kse_wakeup(0x80ac68c,0x80ae234,0x80b4600,0x282ccf42,0x282d84bc,
> 0x80ae334)
> = 383 (0x17f)
> -- UNKNOWN SYSCALL -1081120640 --
> -- UNKNOWN SYSCALL -1081120640 --
> -- UNKNOWN SYSCALL -1081120640 --
> -- UNKNOWN SYSCALL 134924172 --
>
> There's screens of that flying by the whole time, so I don't know if
> that's normal operation or not. If it helps, all I did was a pkg_add
> from the FreeBSD 6 package, although the installer hung trying to
> update
> plugins (I think it was starving from CPU lack in retrospect, since
> I'd
> seen a nessusd process running). I killed that and the installer
> seemed
> to complete normally, telling me about the rc script.
>
> I'm somewhat of a newbie when it comes to Nessus, but I'm willing to
> try
> anything anybody wishes to suggest. I've installed the compat6x
> port as
> well, in the hopes that would help - no joy.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
> --
> ... Far down the vault a man was screaming. His fists were tightly
> clenched and he was screaming out imprecations against the humming
> computers. There was a hopeless rage in his eyes - rage and bitter,
> savage defiance. - 'It Was The Day Of The Robot', Frank Bellknap
> _______________________________________________
> Nessus mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
>
_______________________________________________
Nessus mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
