Michael Meyer wrote: > *** Thomas Reinke wrote: >> Then, we did a full LSC audit, with credentials, of a system that had >> a VERY large file system on it. The box became essentially unusable, >> because the scripts were running "find" operations to locate binaries, >> the scripts would time out, but the "find" operations would NOT timeout >> and keep running. > > At 2012-02-10 14:10:31 i'd committed an updated "version_func.inc" where > i had *tried* to optimize the find call. AFAIK the openvas-feed was > not updated until yesterday. Did you use the version_func.inc from feed or > from SVN? > >> Not being an SSH expert, not quite sure exactly what the solution would >> look like, but there ought to be a way to terminate remote commands >> a script has executed if the script executing it shuts down. > > Yes, agree. My updates to version_func.inc will not solve this issue. > But maybe speed up the find... > > In my tests i saw, that the first find takes some time while all > following finds are very fast. But on a VERY large file system, the > first find may still running during the next find is started and so on... > > Micha >
We used a slightly older version of version_func.inc, but I think from what we saw, the culprit was descending through nfs mounted file systems that were of substantial size. It was thrashing nfsd severely. Thomas _______________________________________________ Openvas-plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-plugins
