why metasploit is so slow?

[junkoi2004 at gmail.com (Jun Koi)]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Nicholas Harvey <hattrickinc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

This really upsets me: I asked for the reason why some commands are
slow, why people think that I whine????

If we know the reason, I, or somebody else, can come up with a fix. At
least that inspires some new ideas to make the tool better. Is that
not contribution?

No flame, please.

Thanks,
J



> Contribute, then bitch.
>
> Sent from my hacked iPhone
>
> 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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