Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] RE: First impressions on Sun testbed

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From: "Brown, Wes" <Wes_Brown@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 20:14:46 -0500 
Yep.  It dumps core.  Huge corefiles.

Wes

-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 8:14 PM
To: Brown, Wes
Cc: Brown, Wes; 'Guy Harris'; 'ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx'
Subject: Re: First impressions on Sun testbed


> (grin) It kind of flakes out when I dump that many packets on the
> program.  I've tried it on a Sun Ultra2 with 2x166mhz CPU's, 512MB
> RAM, and an hme interface, as well as a Sun Ultra ES/3500 with 6x400mhz
> CPU's, and 3GB RAM.  It seems remarkably compute efficient during the
> packet acquisition stage, but the analysis stage seems to bomb out a
> lot.

"Bomb[s] out" as in "dumps core"?