why metasploit is so slow?

[hdm at metasploit.com (H D Moore)]

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.

-HD