Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Question

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:45:15 -0700
Ulf Lamping wrote:
Please note, that Ethereal isn't the best tool for long term capturing, as it will consume increasing amount of memory and will crash if it's running out of it (see http://wiki.ethereal.com/KnownBugs/OutOfMemory).
If you're not doing an "Update list of packets in real time" capture, it shouldn't consume memory as it captures - although it *will* consume memory when you stop the capture and it reads it in.