I don't think the SSD or RAM will do much, it's the concurrent threads that will help. Somehow my OpenVAS machines use quite a bit of CPU per NVT test which makes me limit my 4 core slaves to 2 tasks at once. Not all tasks are the same of course, when there is no web service running the amount of tests being executed is a lot less.
(I always have the feeling my Nessus scanner performs the same tests way faster and with a lot less CPU stress) Thijs Stuurman Security Operations Center | KPN Internedservices B.V. thijs.stuur...@internedservices.nl | thijs.stuur...@kpn.com T: +31(0)299476185 | M: +31(0)624366778 PGP Key-ID: 0x16ADC048 (https://pgp.surfnet.nl/) Fingerprint: 2EDB 9B42 D6E8 7D4B 6E02 8BE5 6D46 8007 16AD C048 W: https://www.internedservices.nl | L: https://nl.linkedin.com/in/thijsstuurman -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Openvas-discuss <openvas-discuss-boun...@wald.intevation.org> Namens Reindl Harald Verzonden: donderdag 26 april 2018 11:02 Aan: openvas-discuss@wald.intevation.org Onderwerp: Re: [Openvas-discuss] Is too much power disruptive? Am 25.04.2018 um 22:16 schrieb Peter Collins: > I'm currently scanning on a 4-core vm with 4gm ram, in Virtualbox on a > laptop, within OSSIM. Traffic average during a scan is about 4kB/s > (kiloBYTES). Network pipe is not the bottleneck. It can provide 20mb/s > (megaBITS) easily. If I get a 12-core/24-thread server with SSD and > 32G ram, will the scans go faster, all settings being the same? And, > will it hammer on the targets too hard and disrupt them? as both sides and a ton of params are involved it won't be magically faster unless you raise the number of concurrent NVT's and if a simple security scan will disrupt the target you have bigger problems at all "please no asshat questions about bytes and bits. I have indicated clearly" which is pretty idiotic when you just could wirte it correct from the start and "4gm ram" is nosense at all _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list Openvas-discuss@wald.intevation.org https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list Openvas-discuss@wald.intevation.org https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
