Re: PCAP performance

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 02:12:35PM +0200, Hans Klute wrote:
> Now I have noticed that about every 3 minutes and 15 seconds the Program
> uses 100 % of the CPU.
> After about 45 sec the program works normal again and uses only 10% of the
> CPU time.
> The program is running on a 300 MHz Celeron with 128 MB RAM under Slackware
> 8.1. 

If you're running it from a terminal window, try typing the quit
character at it (control-backslash, unless you or the Slackware folks or
Linux distributions in general change it from the traditional UN*X
default) when it's running at 100%; that should cause it to dump core. 
Then use gdb to see what the program was doing at that time.
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