Re: Reduce memory consumption by re-reading data from file for reassembled packets.

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com>]

Jakub Zawadzki wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 11:50:58AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > > I like Jeff Moriss idea about mmap()ed files.
> > ...which consume address space, so, again, if the problem is running out of address space,
> > rather than running out of main memory+backing store for anonymous pages, that won't help.
>
> Ok, but what is MAIN problem? That wireshark run out of address space or oom?

I suspect the answer is Yes. ;-)

Most of the complaints we get are about Wireshark quitting and usually 
(I think) it's from 32-bit users.  Whether those users have more than 2 
Gb of memory (RAM + swap) available is unknown, but these days I'd 
suspect yes.
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