Agent Software Footprint
Note: Performance varies by environment and you may or may not see similar results.
Agent Footprint on Disk |
Total Software Footprint on Disk |
RAM Usage While Not Scanning |
Average RAM Usage While Scanning/Peak |
Network Bandwidth Usage |
---|---|---|---|---|
6.6 MB |
800 MB including plugin updates* |
<10% |
45 MB RAM |
~1.5 MB/day** Expected to be much higher in normal conditions. |
* Under certain conditions, disk usage can spike up to 2GB, e.g. when a plugins-code.db defragmentation operation is in progress.
**Assuming only one scan a day with no plugin updates. Used nethogs program to collect network usage (sent/received) of nessusd. After a single scan that detected 66 vulnerabilities on the agent host, 0.855 MB was sent and received (breakdown: .771 MB sent, .084 MB received). After two total scans, 1.551 MB was sent and 0.204 MB was received. Set to > 1 MB day as the polling for jobs adds up (~0.008 MB per poll).