Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 4051] Memory leak in TCP dissector (OutOfMemoryError isn't
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:23:24 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4051





--- Comment #12 from Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>  2009-10-28 08:22:32 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> I raise priority, because these observations imply that long-term capturing is
> not possible.

It should be noted (and I noticed it wasn't mentioned yet in this bug) that
Wireshark is not designed for long-term capturing.  See, for example:

http://wiki.wireshark.org/KnownBugs/OutOfMemory

That's not to say we can't improve on the memory usage, but it's not designed
for this purpose.


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