Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] how to handle big files in wireshark
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From: Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:14:44 +1000
Guy Harris wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Maverick wrote:
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>>I have huge pcap files in Gbs which I want to analyze using wireshark but wireshark is extremely slow and crashes while opening those files. I tried breaking those files into smaller files but thats not very good solution as I have to open up each file and sometime relationship between files gets lost.
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>>Is there a decent way to handle huge files in wireshark .
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> 
> For now, the only way is "use a 64-bit version of Wireshark, make sure you have enough disk space/swap space to back up a large virtual address space, and live with the slowness".

Except the 64 bit versions don't decode SNMP, unless someone has come up
with a 64 bit version of libsmi and changed the build recently.

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