Mailing List Archive: Run away Nessus clients on 1.2.5?

Run away Nessus clients on 1.2.5?

nelsonis at earthlink

Nov 8, 2002, 7:34 AM

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I've got a machine with 512MB of RAM and I've done seveal scans now
where the client seems to spin forever until the system is out of memory
and the kernel kills it. Linux 2.4.18 is the kernel.

Any ideas? The device that is being scanned is up and running.

thanks,
Ian
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Re: Run away Nessus clients on 1.2.5? [ In reply to ]

deraison at nessus

Nov 9, 2002, 6:18 AM

Post #2 of 2 (380 views)

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 07:34:25AM -0700, Ian S. Nelson wrote:
> I've got a machine with 512MB of RAM and I've done seveal scans now
> where the client seems to spin forever until the system is out of memory
> and the kernel kills it. Linux 2.4.18 is the kernel.
>
> Any ideas? The device that is being scanned is up and running.

If you can reproduce this behavior, please attach gdb to the process. To
do so, locate the pid of your "nessus" process, then type :

gdb /usr/local/bin/nessus pidoftheprocess

Then type "backtrace" and send me the output.

-- Renaud