why metasploit is so slow?

[junkoi2004 at gmail.com (Jun Koi)]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Rob Fuller <mubix at room362.com> wrote:
> You can always use msfd. keep it running, then you have no wait time.

I agree, but i am thinking about the solution, not a work-around.

Thanks,
J



> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Jun Koi <junkoi2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:25 AM, H D Moore <hdm at metasploit.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 02:07 +0900, Jun Koi wrote:
> > > > hi,
> > > >
> > > > i am new to metasploit, and wondering why it is so slow? for example,
> > > > "./msfcli -h" takes a minute or so on AMD Turion64, with 2GB RAM. and
> > > > that command does nothing, but only shows some messages.
> > >
> > > That is why we suggest you use msfconsole -- startup time is very slow
> > > because it has to load ~600+ modules into memory. We do plan on making
> > > some performance improvements in the near future, but using a single
> > > msfconsole/msfweb instance tends to be faster for multiple tasks.
> >
> > Interesting! So msfconsole loads less modules at startup? Is that
> > because it has different architecture than msfcli?
> >
> > How many modules msfconsole loads at startup then?
> >
> > I am still not very happy with msfconsole, though. On the same machine
> > it takes around 20-30 seconds to load, and that is still too slow for
> > me. Do you have any plan to fix msfconsole, too?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > J
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