You can try our new host alive detection by setting test_alive_hosts_only = yes in the openvas.conf file (see changes at GVM 20.08 (oldstable, initial release 2020-08-12) It doesn’t use nmap at all. But it might also be possible that nmap is used beside host alive detection. In that case you need to reduce the number of parallel nvts in the task settings.
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