Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Performance. Ethereal is slow when using large captures.

[Kevin <kem2@xxxxxxx>]

An observation on performance with large files.

I have noticed that trace files with a large number of sessions or 
flows take longer to load than a similar trace with just a few 
connections.  This makes sense because of the work needed for each 
flow.  As part of this testing, should we add the number of connections 
as well as number of frames to the mix?

As part of this testing, we should use a series of standard traces that 
let us test and compare various configurations.  I would be happy to 
contribute some traces.

Kevin

On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 05:02 PM, Ian Schorr wrote:

> Hi Ronnie,
>
> This is great, sounds like very important work towards the usability 
> of Ethereal.  The captures I work with on a daily basis tend to be 
> fairly large (200,000+ frames, 800,000 or more per capture isn't 
> unheard of), and speed is by far my #1 concern at the moment.
>
> I'm not sure what I can do, but I'd love to help however I can - 
> perhaps with the gprof stuff?
>
> Ian