Is Nmap built to use all of the available resources eg. in a server such as Dell PowerEdge T620 Server Xeon 16 Core 2.6GHz 128GB RAM with connectivity to both network ports? Basically, would the program take avantage of the extra CPU, Networking availability to drastically improve performance?
Asked
Active
Viewed 166 times
1 Answers
0
No, nmap is single process. You would need to run multiple nmap commands, and even if you did it is unlikely it will fully utilize your hardware.
Scripts written in the Lua-based nmap scripting engine can behave asynchronously, which may help performance.
John Mahowald
- 32,050
- 2
- 19
- 34