Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Setting to disable all expert info
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 13:21:23 -0700
On Aug 2, 2017, at 1:05 PM, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Indeed they probably do not represent much compared to all the fields registered by dissectors. Moreover you are the first one I remember asking for such a feature. Like Jaap, I do not think this is a good move as of today.

+1

Let's wait until the generation of the expert info results in a measurably significant CPU or memory use increase before we add a knob to turn it off.  There are probably other places to look at to reduce memory usage first.