2006-12-10

[en] Nmap 4.20

Nmap 4.20 is out. I had a look at it, just in case some annoying bugs features were fixed.
Against my good old BSD, nessus_tcp_scanner ran on 352 s (with max_check=4) or 254 s (max_check=5). nmap -T 4 ran in 774 s without --defeat-icmp-rate-limitation, or in 658 s with it. Similar to the previous 11 minutes; no gain.

Considering the memory size, I'm afraid that things did not improved.
Here is the result of "nmap -sS -sV -O -v -p- ..." against a vicious configuration.
Memory sizes are in MB, time in seconds. The blue line is the allocated virtual memory, the red line the occupied RAM; the host machine is 32 bits, with 1.5 GB RAM.

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