As far as i am testing OpenVAS i didn’t need more then 2GB. But a few day ago 
linux killed openvas because it eats to much memory...
I think i will take a quadcore with 4gb ram.


Am 07.07.2014 um 13:31 schrieb Reindl Harald <[email protected]>:

> 
> 
> Am 07.07.2014 13:26, schrieb Eero Volotinen:
>> Well, we are currently running two physical scanner servers and one very 
>> large amazon instance for our PCI scanners ..
>> 
>> Usually servers are running quad core processor and 32GB to 128GB of 
>> physical memory.
>> So, it's based on my experiences on real production environments.
> 
> no it's not
> 
> experience would be "we tried it with less RAM but we had to
> upgrade to 32 GB because it otherwise did not work" and not
> "you need that much RAM because i have"
> 
> the most RAM is needed for the feed-sync and with 3 GB you are normally fine



Yes you are right, most of the time it will be a default scan config. It´s okay 
if its not parallel, but it should not run just one scan a night.

> 
> Do you need to run a lot of scans in parallel, or can a scan run lazily all 
> night?
> Do you want to brute force / enumerate logins, or do you "just" run discovery 
> scans.
> Etc etc…

Thanks for your fast responses,
Rene
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