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Re: Memory consumption in tshark
From: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws () darkjames pl>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:53:01 +0200
Hi,
From: wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Dario LombardoI've run this command on a 10G pcap file../tshark -r traffic.all -Y "dns.qry.name.len > 50" -w longnames.pcapUsed memory grows continuously, up to over 3GB of ram. At this point my pc goes thrashing and I must kill tshark. That's not what I expected. I expected the memory to grow up to a certain size, then stop, feeding the output file. Any idea about what happens? Any suggestion on how to debug it?
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 02:40:07PM +0000, Anders Broman wrote:
No it will not; as state and stuff accumulates memory grows until *shark runs out of memory your mileage on
Isn't it a bug? Do we need some special option for such case, or reusing single pass tshark is good enough? We should anyway do -2 pass default where we have a file (and not pipe). ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Memory consumption in tshark Dario Lombardo (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Anders Broman (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Jakub Zawadzki (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Joerg Mayer (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Evan Huus (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Jakub Zawadzki (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Evan Huus (Aug 28)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Jakub Zawadzki (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Evan Huus (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Joerg Mayer (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Evan Huus (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Joerg Mayer (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Anders Broman (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Evan Huus (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Anders Broman (Aug 27)