[framework] Feature requests? Bugs? Annoyances?

[Jonatan B]

On 9/22/07, H D Moore <hdm at metasploit.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> So, what am I missing? Which of these projects would you find the most
> useful? Any general suggestions? Thanks!
>

I'd like to see it faster and less memory hungry:

Script started on Mon Sep 24 10:02:48 2007
laptop 0 0 /tmp/b # echo 'echo exit | ruby' > a
laptop 0 0 /tmp/b # /usr/bin/time -hl ./a
        0.02s real              0.00s user              0.01s sys
      1888  maximum resident set size
        56  average shared memory size
       316  average unshared data size
       192  average unshared stack size
       355  page reclaims
         0  page faults
         0  swaps
         0  block input operations
         0  block output operations
         0  messages sent
         0  messages received
         0  signals received
         5  voluntary context switches
         3  involuntary context switches

# Plain Ruby takes 0.01 kernel time, even less user-time. It takes at most
# 1.8MB RAM.

laptop 0 0 /tmp/b # echo 'echo exit | msfcli' > a
laptop 0 0 /tmp/b # chmod 755 a
laptop 0 0 /tmp/b # /usr/bin/time -hl ./a
Usage: /usr/local/bin/msfcli <exploit_name> <option=value> [mode]
snipped output...

	9.74s real		8.10s user		0.99s sys
     36716  maximum resident set size
         4  average shared memory size
     22131  average unshared data size
       127  average unshared stack size
      8609  page reclaims
         1  page faults
         0  swaps
       207  block input operations
         0  block output operations
         0  messages sent
         0  messages received
         0  signals received
       214  voluntary context switches
      1624  involuntary context switches

# msfcli takes 1sec kernel-time and 8sec user-time, and 37MB RAM.
# To cancel the file-system access (207 bio), let's run again:

laptop 0 0 /tmp/b # /usr/bin/time -hl ./a
Usage: /usr/local/bin/msfcli <exploit_name> <option=value> [mode]
=================================================================
snipped again...

        9.58s real              8.21s user              0.83s sys
     36716  maximum resident set size
         4  average shared memory size
     22097  average unshared data size
       127  average unshared stack size
      8608  page reclaims
         0  page faults
         0  swaps
         0  block input operations
         0  block output operations
         0  messages sent
         0  messages received
         0  signals received
         5  voluntary context switches
      1660  involuntary context switches

# With almost no disk access (VFS cached the files for us), the
# times are not very different. 36MB of RAM is the peak consumption.

laptop 0 0 /tmp/b # exit
Script done on Mon Sep 24 10:08:54 2007