On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:29:54PM +0200, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> Is it a known bug that Ethereal 0.8.12 leaks memory?
>
> I discovered it while wondering why Ethereal was so slow after capturing
> packets continuously for 3 days on a 486/66 with 40 Mbytes of
> memory.....call me weird, but I like watching.
> The program size was 40 Mbytes, resident 17 Mbytes; just after start, the
> program size was 5.9 Mbytes (as reported by ps -aux).
>
> - OS: Linux 2.2.5 with SMP support, from Red Hat 6.0 distribution
> - GTK: 1.2.6
> - Ethereal 0.8.12 with GTK+ 1.2.6, with libpcap 0.4, without libz, without SNMP
> - Command used: Start Ethereal with a remote display to another X server,
> display options "Time of day", select "automatic scrolling in live capture"
> and "enable name resolution". Capture length 65535.
> Start capture with a "not host <X server>" packet filter.
> - Leave to stew for 3 days on a home LAN (low traffic).
Not, it's not known. How many packets did you capture after 3 days?
Did you save the packets to a file? If so, when you load that file
in a freshly-started Ethereal, what's the size of the Ethereal
process?
--gilbert
