On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, justin wrote:
> I can't tell you much about the CVS builds as I tend to stay away from those
> for the same reasons you are having problems, but I can tell you that 48 MB
> of ram is probably going to be a problem, I had a dell laptop with 96MB
> running scans agains 7 hosts, that thing was so slow it took like 24 hours
> to do the scan. even on a IBM server with 256MB running Xwindows and nessus
> it took 12 hours to scan 7 hosts using the CLI nessus.
My estimate is that a reasonable scan takes about 8 to 12 hours if the
tested host does not send ICMP packets to indicate a closed port.
This is mostly a nmap UDP issue.
But with a 256MB machine you should be able to test about 16 host in
parallel without a problem. (Well in fact you may if you run it directly
through a switch and the traffic is too much for your machine to handle.)
Hugo.
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