OOM Killing Redis on Large Scan with OpenVAS

In such cases the Redis KB might be indeed include a lot “cached” HTTP responses by default. Info how to disable this caching for a specific task / target has been given previously by @Martin via:

Note that disabling the caching of web pages might:

  • slow down the scan itself
  • put additional load on the target host

as the internal cache isn’t used anymore and additional TCP / HTTP repeated requests to the target is done.