Re: [Vserver] massive load after a nessus scan

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Thu 17 Aug 2006 - 20:35:32 BST
Message-ID: <20060817193532.GA1273@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 06:43:58PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>
> I've seen a system load of about 500 today, while the system still
> remained reasonably responsible. The reason was a local nessus
> scan, on a /24 network, on reasonably meagre hardware

the nessus scan does some nasty checks which 'sometimes'
cause hangs on certain machines (with unfortunately
configured ntpds for example)

HTH,
Herbert

> (Athlon XP, 1.2 GHz).
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