Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal memory leakage fix and feature enhancement

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 21:21:29 -0700
> In my case, i did a long-term scan on AIX (iptrace) with a range of about
> 50 remote machines to find certain conditions that breaks a connection.
> When such a break happens, i just wanted to be able to load a subset of
> the huge generated file (performace simply sucks, if a 100MB trace file
> is loaded).

I just checked in my changes to speed up trace-file loading.

> So it's basically a way to make a broad scan and just pretend to
> ethereal it was a more narrowed down one (once you know how to narrow it
> down :) )

So does the trace-file loading speedup render the ability to filter when
reading unnecessary, or is that useful even if reading is faster?