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Re: user priorities

Subject: Re: user priorities
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 10:15:56 +0200
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On May 13, 2007, at 8:20 PM, Ondrej Holecek wrote:


i've tried to play with max_checks and test time is much better now
(10-15 minutes), but the maximal value I can use is 15 and in log there is
max_checks (20) > MAX_PROCESSES (16)


I think, that our computer could handle more processes without problem.
is somehow possible to increase this value? nessus3 is closed source, so
i can't recompile it.

You really do not want to increase max_checks beyond 16, which is already a very large value (all things compared) -- remember that max_checks is the maximum number of checks _per host_ so if you have max_checks = 16 and max_host = 20, you are talking about 320 processes in parallel.


If you start to cross the 10 processes-per host limit, you start knocking off services extremely quickly. As Ron pointed out, you really want to increase the max # of hosts being scanned in parallel instead.



                                -- Renaud
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