You can change the concurrently running NVTs in the task configure. So you are not reducing the coverage. I hope i got your problem right ...
Rene Am 09.08.2014 um 19:28 schrieb Traiano Welcome <[email protected]>: > Hi List > > I’ve installed OpenVAS 7 on a single Ubuntu 14.04 EC2 instance (64bit , > m3.large) in AWS’s cloud, with default settings and no tuning. > As an initial test, I’ve run a “default” scan against a single IP. The scan > takes longer than 30 minutes to complete, and during this time the load > average of the VM varies from 5 to 8 with up to 10 openvassd processes > running concurrently. > > I’ve tested this on multiple instances and consistently get the same > behavior. My question is: Is there some kind of tuning I can do to reduce the > load of scanning a single system, without compromising too much on the > comprehensiveness of the scan? > > Also, is there some way of gauging the kind of load I should expect to see > using OpenVAS as a scanner on linux? > > Thanks in advance, > Traiano > > > > > > Senior Systems Engineer | I.T > M.H.Alshaya Co W.L.L > Retail Division > P.O.Box 181, Safat 13002, Kuwait > Phone: (965) 22080110; Fax: (965) 2224 2488 > www.alshaya.com > > _______________________________________________ > Openvas-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
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