why metasploit is so slow?

[hattrickinc at gmail.com (Nicholas Harvey)]

IMHO, I take extreme offense to what you said. You didn't offer to  
help in any way or suggest something, you whined at HD Moore. WTF?

Contribute, then bitch.

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On Mar 4, 2009, at 9:25 PM, Jun Koi <junkoi2004 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM, FRANCIS PROVENCHER
> <francis.provencher at msp.gouv.qc.ca> wrote:
> > If your not "very happy", work with the dev team to improve it....  
> > Its just to easy to complain without  doing nothing....
> > My 2 cents... From a user wery happy with the metasploit framework...
>
>
> i understand your idea, but users always should and need to complain,
> as their ideas and input are important for developers and development
> process.
>
> complain alone is also a kind of contributing, anyway. if you know
> enough about open source, you will agree with me.
>
> besides, how can you know that i am not doing anything?
>
> thanks,
> J
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jun Koi <junkoi2004 at gmail.com>
> > To: H D Moore <hdm at metasploit.com>
> > Cc: framework <framework at spool.metasploit.com>
> >
> > Sent: 3/4/2009 7:41:06 PM
> > Subject: Re: [framework] why metasploit is so slow?
> >
> > 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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