Re: nse crypto

[Toni Ruottu <toni.ruottu () iki fi>]

Do we conclude that we need to do performance testing on the nping
server to see how well it performs in regular cases? And then we may
or may not find the reason why the brute force script is so slow.

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Patrik Karlsson <patrik () cqure net> wrote:
> I've done some very/extremely basic tests that suggest that this won't
> scale very well, and I don't think NSE is the problem. But like I said,
> the tests are very basic, and as always I may be very wrong :)
>
> Running the following command against a server listening on the loopback
> interface takes roughly a second: ncat/ncat 127.0.0.1 9929 < /dev/zero
>
> Running the same command ten times in a row, takes roughly 10 seconds.
> Running ten times in a row in two separate terminal windows increases the
> time for each sequence of ten connects to 20 seconds.
>
> Three terminal windows result in 30 seconds....
>
> //Patrik
>
> Den 2011-03-13 12.28 skrev Toni Ruottu <toni.ruottu () iki fi>:
>
> > Oh boy. I am lost. It does not use 100% cpu, it does certainly not use
> > the full network bandwidth, and there is no way it could use up all
> > memory. Now, what other bottle necks are there?
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Luis MartinGarcia.
> > <luis.mgarc () gmail com> wrote:
> > > On 03/13/2011 04:16 AM, Toni Ruottu wrote:
> > > > Maybe the server only accepts one connection at a time from a given
> > > > address?
> > >
> > > No, the server does not limit the number of connections in any way.
> > >
> > > Luis.
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