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Re: Zenmap Crashing and CPU Utilisation hangs at 50%


From: Rob Nicholls <robert () robnicholls co uk>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:54:30 +0000

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:39:05 -0800, David Fifield wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:23:01AM +0000, Rob Nicholls wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:22:59 -0800, David Fifield wrote:
>Guys, I think this is greatly ameliorated in r21861. Please give it a
>try. I made it update the text field incrementally, and also apply
>new
>highlighting incrementally. I can "nmap --packet-trace -p- localhost"
>without much delay, with highlighting on.

I'm guessing you might not have tested the new incremental update
code on Windows (it works as before/expected on Linux), as I don't
get to see any scan results until the entire scan has completed. The
highlighting seems to work fine though (from memory it looks
identical to before), and it didn't freeze/crash.

You're right, I didn't test it on Windows. It didn't work for me either
when I tried it. I did something different in r21875, please try it.

It appears to be working much better on Windows, many thanks for fixing this!

I'm now able to complete a -p- scan with --packet-trace (using the same host where Zenmap would freeze before). The CPU usage tends to briefly spike as updates are made, and roughly doubles with highlighting enabled (towards the end it was briefly maxing out one of my cores during the spikes), but unless you're using --packet-trace it's probably now fine for most systems to handle.

Rob

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