Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Memory leak of ethereal-0.8.12

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From: Ron Flory <ron.flory@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 09:16:29 -0500
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).

 I've seen 'top' report different results each time it was lanched for
the same ethereal session.  Sometimes its 2680 bytes, sometimes 3920
bytes, sometimes 33M, not sure why...

> If this is a well known problem, I'll wait for the next version of
> something... otherwise, I'm happy to try out patches and let the thing run.

 how large is your capture file getting?  Extended, unfiltered capture
sessions eventually cause my system to start swapping because the
capture file gets so darn big.  Its not ethereal's fault...

 look at the size of /tmp/ether*    (the capture file)

ron