Interestingly enough, I did some research on performing indirect scans on machines a while back (basically setting a fancy proxy).
During this research, I ended up seeing why I saw similar, but not as extreme, behavior as I watched the FIFOs I set up. http://volatile-minds.blogspot.com/2013/11/thoughts-on-vulnerability-scans-with.html On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Brandon Perry <[email protected]> wrote: > The finds are used to discover binaries on the file system to perform > version checks. > > > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Arya Goudarzi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have been using OpenVAS for 3 years now. However, I'd never used the >> authenticated test feature of it till today. For some reason on some of the >> target machines, the installed openvas user is executing bunch of 'find' >> commands. I suppose this is part of a test, but running 10s of finds at the >> same time was causing the load to go as high as 140 on a machine with 4 >> cores. What test is this, and how can I nice it? This does not happen on >> all target nodes and I am running 4 NVTs at a time. >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> -Arya >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openvas-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss >> > > > > -- > http://volatile-minds.blogspot.com -- blog > http://www.volatileminds.net -- website > -- http://volatile-minds.blogspot.com -- blog http://www.volatileminds.net -- website
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