In my opinion i think that those resources would be better spent on openvassd process since it does the heavy lifting.
Fabio > No dia 08/01/2017, às 00:59, Reindl Harald <[email protected]> escreveu: > > > > Am 08.01.2017 um 01:30 schrieb TN TN: >> HI Christian, I actually have it installed with postgresql, but when >> you're scanning thousands of internal hosts on a weekly basis it slows >> it down considerably over time.. I'm just curious on why openvasmd is >> not using enough resources on the server. Thanks TN > > because they are not available which means you assume the bottleneck likely > where it isn't - when you scan thousands of hosts how do you come to the > conclusion at a single openvas machine will be enough? > > just install *more* instances as virtual machines when you say you are not > cpu-bound and have enough memory and spread the load - problem solved > >> On 7 January 2017 at 17:09, Christian Fischer >> <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On 07.01.2017 19:43, TN TN wrote: >> > Hi, I have a fairly powerful server and it seems like the openvasmd >> > process isnt using up alot of the resources on the box. If I run >> > numerous scans (the scanner being off of the main openvasmd >> server), the >> > openvasmd process barely uses any resources, however Greenbone slows >> > down and the backend commands take much longer to execute. Is there a >> > way to force openvasmd to use more resources (CPU/Memory) so that it >> > runs faster? Thanks, TN >> >> i don't think this is possible and it also probably wouldn't help here. >> The manager process is using the resources it needs. >> >> I think the bottle neck is more likely the sqlite database backend which >> slows down if multiple scanners are sending data to the manager. Have a >> look at the postgresql database backend which might help to improve the >> performance. > _______________________________________________ > Openvas-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
