Thanks Rene. I will give that a try.

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Rene Behring <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hey
>
> I had the same problem (german mailing list), the user had mounted some
> filesystems which were searched too.
> take a look at these to options:
>
> GSA -> Configuration -> Scan Configs -> Edit Scan Config -> Options
> for Local Security Checks -> Also use 'find' command to search for
> Applications -> No.
>
> and
>
> GSA -> Configuration -> Scan Configs -> Edit Scan Config -> Options
> for Local Security Checks -> Descend directories on other filesystem
> (don't add -xdev to find) -> No.
>
> I only disabled the second Option and that solved my problem. After
> disabling the option (enable -xdev) the find´s are very fast.
>
> Hope its the same for you…
>
> Regards
>
> René Behring
>
>
> Am 06.06.2014 um 02:33 schrieb Arya Goudarzi <[email protected]>:
>
> Assuming each NVT explores 1 vulnerability and each vulnerability is
> associated with 1 binary, then I should see 4 find commands running on the
> machine at max not 20 since I am running 4 NVTs on a host at a time.
> Unless, my assumption is wrong.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 5:03 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.
>>>
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