why metasploit is so slow?

[takuan4 at gmail.com (takuan)]

Part of the reason is because it is written in Ruby, a "scripting language".
Scripting languages (PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, etc...) by their
nature are slower than native code (C, assembly, etc...).

If metasploit is not fast enough for your needs, you can always port the
framework to assembly which would make it much faster.
That would fix your problem.
Send the link to the beta once you get most of the code ported and I will
help beta test.
=D

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On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Jun Koi <junkoi2004 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Nicholas Harvey <hattrickinc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > IMHO, I take extreme offense to what you said. You didn't offer to help
> in
> > any way or suggest something, you whined at HD Moore. WTF?
> >
> > Contribute, then bitch.
>
> IMO, posting questions only is a kind of contributing anyway. At least
> other people can learn something from the answers, as many (sooner or
> later) might have the same question.
>
> So vary your definition of contribution in open source world.
>
> No more post from me on this topic, except to ask HDM about the reason
> why some tools are slow.
>
> Thanks,
> J
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Mar 4, 2009, at 9:25 PM, Jun Koi <junkoi2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM, FRANCIS PROVENCHER
> > > <francis.provencher at msp.gouv.qc.ca> wrote:
> > > > If your not "very happy", work with the dev team to improve it.... Its
> > > > just to easy to complain without  doing nothing....
> > > > My 2 cents... From a user wery happy with the metasploit framework...
> > >
> > >
> > > i understand your idea, but users always should and need to complain,
> > > as their ideas and input are important for developers and development
> > > process.
> > >
> > > complain alone is also a kind of contributing, anyway. if you know
> > > enough about open source, you will agree with me.
> > >
> > > besides, how can you know that i am not doing anything?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > J
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Jun Koi <junkoi2004 at gmail.com>
> > > > To: H D Moore <hdm at metasploit.com>
> > > > Cc: framework <framework at spool.metasploit.com>
> > > >
> > > > Sent: 3/4/2009 7:41:06 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [framework] why metasploit is so slow?
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:25 AM, H D Moore <hdm at metasploit.com> wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 02:07 +0900, Jun Koi wrote:
> > > > > > hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > i am new to metasploit, and wondering why it is so slow? for example,
> > > > > > "./msfcli -h" takes a minute or so on AMD Turion64, with 2GB RAM. and
> > > > > > that command does nothing, but only shows some messages.
> > > > >
> > > > > That is why we suggest you use msfconsole -- startup time is very slow
> > > > > because it has to load ~600+ modules into memory. We do plan on making
> > > > > some performance improvements in the near future, but using a single
> > > > > msfconsole/msfweb instance tends to be faster for multiple tasks.
> > > >
> > > > Interesting! So msfconsole loads less modules at startup? Is that
> > > > because it has different architecture than msfcli?
> > > >
> > > > How many modules msfconsole loads at startup then?
> > > >
> > > > I am still not very happy with msfconsole, though. On the same machine
> > > > it takes around 20-30 seconds to load, and that is still too slow for
> > > > me. Do you have any plan to fix msfconsole, too?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > J
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