Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Get_cpu_info on platforms other than Windows?

[Anders Broman <a.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris skrev 2013-02-06 22:52:
> On Feb 6, 2013, at 1:05 PM, Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Why do we need to show system information in Wireshark which is
> > available in system specific tools which are better suited for this
> > task?
> It *might* be interesting for performance questions if
>
> 	1) the user submits a bug and provides the configuration information
>
> or
>
> 	2) it's easier to get them to open About -> Wireshark than to figure up whatever tool is appropriate on their particular OS or to otherwise get the CPU information.
>
> However, there's other information that might be useful, such as bus speeds, memory speeds, etc.; I doubt we want to gather a ton of information about that.
>
> I don't see it as being useful for crashing bugs or mis-dissection bugs or....
>
> *Memory* size might be useful not just for performance bugs but also, in combination with swap-space size, could be useful for out-of-memory bugs.
Yes that's the reasoning behind it, printing the OS version (lsb_release 
-a) might be interesting too but that
seems even trickier.
Regards
Anders
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