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 _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
