Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] packet-smb.c:11327 - si->info_level = t2i->info_level

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From: Marcin Gryszkalis <mgryszkalis@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:33:50 +0100
Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:



you can just apply the patch yourself. The patch is really small.
I did but I have problems with build (described in another mail - I'd be glad if someone could help). 


You run tethereal for very very very long captures? Like millions of
packets?
As i stated earlier,
tethereal is stateful, i.e. in order to dissect quite a lot of different
protocols it must remember stuff between packets.
This will cause [t]ethereal to allocate more and more memory on your box
until your OS thiks "enough is enough" and it will
kill tethereal (or panic, if it is a suboptimal os).


My tests shows that during 24h period it grows up to 100M of
memory, so that's huge but acceptable size, I restart it once a day
to turn the logs.

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Marcin Gryszkalis <mg@xxxxxxxxx>
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