What have you got in display options ? I have this problem frequently trying to capture intermittent voip issues that might not occur for days.
I had much more success unticking update list in real time, and ticking hide capture dialog. The only way to see it is capturing is the status bar counter, watching the packet counter go up. That would then run for days.
Updating list in real time brought it to its knees pretty quick.
I usually go for 50mb files because they're easy to work with and can be joined together easy enough if reqd.
From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Carlson
Sent: 19 February 2010 00:06
To: 'Community support list for Wireshark'
Subject: [Wireshark-users] Reliability?
We have
been trying to do a long running capture and we cannot keep Wireshark up and
running. WS is up to date. We are monitoring 1 port and writing out 100MB
files. Each file is filled in a 2-4 hours. WS will not stay up forever. It dies
every so often. We are trying a larger buffer size.
Are there
any known issues?
Cheers, Bob
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