Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Crash when loading large capture files

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Tisdell wrote:
> Dev,
>
> Wireshark crashes regularly when I try to load large capture files (over 
> 100MB) on my FreeBSD system. I am currently using Wireshark 
> wireshark-0.99.4_1, and FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE, but I have seen this problem 
> through several version of Wireshark, and under previous version of FreeBSD.
>
> The output from the gdb backtrace is:
>
> Core was generated by `wireshark'.
> Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
> #0  0x29e7eebf in ?? ()
> (gdb) 
>
>
> Is there any additional information that might be helpful in tracking down 
> this problem?

Well, this might help:

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

Is Wireshark printing anything to stdout/stderr when it crashes for you?

I thought I read recently (in SVN) that there's been some improvement in 
the printout (to make it clearer when it's run out of memory), but I'm 
not sure about that.