Increasing Speed & Accuracy

🎯 Increasing speed / accuracy

• Batch size

This increases speed, by allowing us to process more at once. Something experimental I am working on is changing the open file limit. You can do this manually with ulimit -n 70000 and then running rustscan with -b 65535. This should scan all 65535 ports at the exact same time. But this is extremely experimental.

For non-experimental speed increases, slowly increase the batch size until it no longer gets open ports, or it breaks.

• Accuracy (and some speed)

To increase accuracy, the easiest way is to increase the timeout. The default is 1.5 seconds, by setting it to 4 seconds (4000) we are telling RustScan "if we do not hear back from a port in 4 seconds, assume it is closed".

Decreasing accuracy gives some speed bonus, but my testing found that batch size dramatically changed the speed whereas timeout did, but not so much.