Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 7676] tshark -q -z io, stat, 1 causes core dump for files
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:34:34 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7676

Steve Magnuson <steve.magnuson2@xxxxxxxxxx> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         OS/Version|FreeBSD                     |Windows XP

--- Comment #5 from Steve Magnuson <steve.magnuson2@xxxxxxxxxx> 2012-08-31 15:34:33 PDT ---
Hi Jakub-


memory is not limited for user steve.(In reply to comment #3)
[snip]
> How much memory do you have? Is memory limited for 'steve' user?
> Can you reproduce problem on another machine?
> I'm also interested what's top RSS of tshark process, on Linux /usr/bin/time
> shows this kind of info, but I'm not sure if it works on FreeBSD.
> Could you upload sample capture file with problem?

Hi Jakub-

I have plenty of memory:

[steve@nms231s1 freecolor]$ freecolor -b -o
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:    3470589952  418836480 3051753472          0          0   32305152
Swap:            0  367149056 3927818240

I can reproduce the problem on another FreeBSD 9.0 machine, but it works fine
with the same capture file on Windwows XP (tshark 1.8.2 in both cases).

User 'steve' has no memory limits.

FreeBSD 'time' doesn't give any memory stats, but I ran it anyway:

[steve@nms231s1 ~]$ time -p tshark -n -r 20120214-BA_00001_20120214155239.pcap
-q -z io,stat,1

(process:65525): GLib-ERROR (recursed) **: gmem.c:240: failed to allocate 64
bytes
aborting...
Abort trap: 6 (core dumped)
real 34.29
user 3.24
sys 8.51

At the same time, I ran this in another console to give you an idea of the
memory usage:

[steve@nms231s1 ~]$ top -b -d40 -s1 | grep 'tshark\|PID'
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  25    0 85176K 42864K vnread  0   0:00  2.20% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  39    0   269M   226M CPU0    0   0:01  8.59% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  77    0   913M   870M CPU1    1   0:02 17.58% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  79    0  1517M  1472M CPU1    1   0:03 25.68% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  81    0  2161M  2119M CPU0    0   0:04 33.15% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  83    0  2805M  2765M CPU1    1   0:05 39.89% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  83    0  2929M  2884M CPU0    1   0:05 37.06% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  83    0  2929M  2885M RUN     1   0:05 33.89% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  82    0  2933M  2871M RUN     1   0:05 32.37% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  52    0  2933M  2731M wdrain  1   0:06 31.69% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  81    0  2933M  2731M RUN     1   0:06 29.59% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  80    0  2933M  2671M RUN     1   0:06 27.39% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  80    0  2933M  2554M RUN     0   0:06 24.85% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  52    0  2933M  2554M swread  1   0:06 25.49% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  78    0  2933M  2557M RUN     0   0:06 21.97% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  52    0  2933M  2559M swread  0   0:06 19.97% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  77    0  2933M  2567M RUN     1   0:06 18.16% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  44    0  2933M  2569M swread  0   0:06 16.80% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  40    0  2933M  2593M swread  0   0:06 16.70% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  37    0  2933M  2593M swread  1   0:06 16.36% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  35    0  2933M  2637M swread  0   0:07 16.80% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  35    0  2933M  2662M wdrain  0   0:07 17.29% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  41    0  2933M  2662M wdrain  0   0:07 21.09% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  47    0  2933M  2662M wdrain  0   0:08 24.27% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  80    0  2933M  2662M CPU1    1   0:09 27.49% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  52    0  2933M  2662M wdrain  0   0:09 30.47% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  81    0  2933M  2662M CPU0    0   0:09 30.57% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  52    0  2933M  2662M wdrain  1   0:10 30.08% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  49    0  2933M  2662M wdrain  1   0:10 30.08% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  48    0  2933M  2662M CPU1    1   0:10 31.15% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  48    0  2933M  2662M CPU0    0   0:11 29.30% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  52    0  2933M  2662M wdrain  1   0:11 32.47% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
65525 steve            1  82    0     0K     8K CPU0    0   0:11 32.47% tshark
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
  PID USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
[steve@nms231s1 ~]$

SIZE is the total size of the process (text, data, and stack), RES is the
current amount of resident memory (both SIZE and RES are given in kilobytes)

I've uploaded the BA_00001_20120214155239.pcap file.

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