Peter,
> How can I reduce the number of plugins (remove unused) and make it
> operate faster?

AFAIK you can't disable plugins on the server side so they are not being loaded at nessusd startup. What you can do is simply delete or move plugins (make sure nessusd is not running while doing that). If you use nessus-update-plugins all plugins will be installed again, so you have to repeat this step after each update. I'm not sure you want to do that :)

Btw. if you compiled from source, the plugin-set is to be found in /usr/local/lib/nessus/plugins/.

Maybe it would be quite more helpful if you move your nessus installation to a faster box? On my PIII-500 (server&client) with only 128 MB RAM I experience the same behavior like you. On a 2 GHz Athlon with 1 GB RAM the server loads fast and also the client login has only a short delay.


Toby

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 16.08.2005 14:58:
Hello

I use Nessus to scan Apache server and therefore I only use about 30 plugins, 
but when initialising nessusd loads over 8000 of them and it takes a lot of 
time. What's more logging in by Nessus GUI takes about 5 minutes too, in which 
Nessus does not respond.

How can I reduce the number of plugins (remove unused) and make it operate 
faster?

Thanks in advance for advice

Regards
Peter

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