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Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Performance

Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Performance
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:26:43 +0100

On Feb 20, 2008, at 6:20 PM, bismark@foofus.net wrote:


We've been very wary at Tenable to produce any sort of "this
OS is faster than this OS" type of guidelines because there
are many variables to consider.

Understood.  I'm just seeing a night and day difference here and I'm
wondering if there is something configured wrong on my system or  
something
obvious that I should set to make it comparable.

Try to set be_nice to 'yes' in nessusd.conf (and in your config file).  
Let us know if that improves the results.


                                -- Renaud
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