On Montag, 6. Juli 2015, Ryan Schulze wrote: > Were the slaves running scans at the same time? > We had problems here with such a setup because the slaves were > constantly reporting back their results (during the scan) to the master > and the master was busy fighting for file locks on the sqlite DB. It was > impossible to do anything on the master as long as 2 or more instances > were running scans at the same time. I even put the sqlite on a ramdisk > to see if it was just slow disk I/O causing the problem, but the problem > still persisted.
I've not experienced serious trouble with more than two slaves, using sqlite. Actually the manager connects the slaves for status - not vice versa. > On the bright side I've had good experience with using PostgreSQL as a > backend for the central master :-) While sqlite does database-level locking, PostgreSQL does table-level locking and thus indeed should handle some situations better than sqlite. Are you using OpenVAS-8 with PG or trunk? -- Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner | +49-541-335084-0 | http://www.greenbone.net/ Greenbone Networks GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, HR B 202460 Geschäftsführer: Lukas Grunwald, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
