Has anyone experienced any problems running the latest Nessus on OpenBSD? It compiled and installed just fine, but I'm having some major performance issues. Scanning one host, for example, took over 40 minutes and shot my load average up past 12. I scheduled a batch scan of 5 hosts for Saturday night, and right now, almost 36 hours later, it's still running, with 12 'nessusd -D's showing up in ps ax, and a load average of over 5 still (it peaked at about 22.5 (yes, a load average of 22.5) Saturday night). I don't know if it's still trying to run now, or if it's just hung. tcpdump only seems to be showing regular network traffic (DNS, DHCP, etc.). Granted, this isn't the most stout piece of hardware (PII 400, 192MB RAM), but it should be able to handle 5 hosts. Also, I had nessus running on this same box with RedHat 7.3 a couple weeks ago, and I certainly didn't have this many problems. So, anyone have any idea what my problem might be? Could it be configured wrong? Could it just be an OS issue? I really need to get this ironed out before it goes into production, and time's growing short. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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