Re: Memory question

[János Löbb <janos.lobb () yale edu>]

Yes, I am, otherwise I cannot capture all the traffic on the switch- I  
might be wrong.  Something is causing malformed packets, but not  
regularly, so my thought is to use brute force and capture a whole day  
of traffic.  The hard drive would be able to hold it :-)

Thanks ahead,

János
On Mar 25, 2010, at 11:23 AM, M K wrote:

> Are you in promiscuous mode?  That consumes more.
>
> On 3/25/10, János Löbb <janos.lobb () yale edu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I thought that when I dedicate a file for the capture, the program
> > will not run out of memory, but rather from time to time writes the
> > captured data to this file.  Yesterday I tried to capture as much  
> > as I
> > could on a PC with windows XP SP3 on it using WireShark 1.2.6 but
> > after some 20 minutes the program stopped and told it is out of
> > memory.  The data was in the file, but even after restarting the PC I
> > was unable to open it.  WireShark again posted an out of memory
> > message.  Looks to me that Wireshark wants to read all the content
> > into real memory and it fails.  The size of the file is 321.9MB.  The
> > machine is a 1.4Ghz Pentium 4 with 384MB of RAM
> >
> > Is there any setting I can change to be able to open the file and  
> > work
> > with it ?  How folks are doing lengthier captures, like multiple  
> > hours ?
> >
> > Thanks ahead,
> >
> > János
> >
> >
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