Been there, done that, not so easy as it sounds. See these repos with
tools I created to analyze w3af performance issues:
https://github.com/andresriancho/collector/
https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af-performance-analysis/
You (and anyone else on the list) is more than welcome to run these
tools, collect memory usage data and help me find the problem :)
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Andrew King <aki...@gm...> wrote:
> Here's a thought... Install some memory dumping tool and dump the process
> memory to see what is actually in it? Might be faster than trial and error
> and looking at each individual plugin and whittling away at features.
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:51 AM, Vojtěch Polášek <kr...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> okay and can I offer any help with this? I have chosen W3AF as part of
>> my bachelor thesis and this presents a big problem for me, because I
>> can't test the provided application. Offcourse this is not the only
>> reason.
>> Best regards,
>> Vojta
>>
>>
>> Dne 8.1.2016 v 12:41 Andres Riancho napsal(a):
>> > On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:40 AM, Vojtěch Polášek <kr...@gm...>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Greetings,
>> >> I am testing a web application with lots of Javascript with W3AF. I use
>> >> spider_man to gather starting information and I use almost all audit
>> >> plugins but no other crawling plugins.
>> >> I browsed just through two pages and submitted one form with spider_man
>> >> to get some starting data.
>> >> Unfortunatelly W3AF scans the application for terribly long time. It
>> >> goes from for example 300 requests per minute to 10 per minute and
>> >> still
>> >> going lower.
>> >> When I press enter during scanning it is showing still the same
>> >> crawling
>> >> and auditing url, just the number of requests is dropping.
>> >> I can post you some more information about used plugins if you need it.
>> >> Why is this happening?
>> > I've seen this issue too, not sure why it happens, might be related
>> > with [0] but I'm unsure.
>> >
>> > [0] https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af/issues/12505
>> >
>> >> Thanks and best regards,
>> >> Vojta
>> >>
>> >>
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