100% CPU?

Dear Users,

Today, I installed nessus 3.
I am running a scan against 30 machines from which only 4 were up. I ran 
every test (DDOS) , enabling dependancies, disabling Reverse DNS lookups, 
scannning all the 65000 ports. Unfortunately, after 3 hours, here I am. The 
port scan took almost 2h...to get to 99% even though only a few ports are 
open (OK I know, there were 65000 to scan). Two of the 4 hosts have only 
port 25 and 80 but nessus cannot finish the port scan. It still says 99%. 
One of the machines eventually finished.
The problem is that I see 3 running nessusd processes on the machine sharing 
the 100% CPU. I stopped 2 of them so, I thought, one of them could finish 
faster, but no... this one is consuming the 100% CPU all by itself.
Memory usage is 11.2%. Machine is frontal, 2.8G, 256M RAM... only for 
nessus....

Is this nornal?
Thanks
Paulo


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