Re: Wireshark (1.4.0) fails opening large file on Windows Vista 32-bit.

[Marco Simone Zuppone <msz () msz eu>]

Hello,

the file is really huge. In my opinion is a good idea to use a 64bit os and
try to use the lastes version of Wireshark (1.4.1) and...finger crossed :-)
 Regards,
Marco s. Zuppone

2010/10/25 Tamás Varga <Tamas.Varga () ericsson com>

>  Hi Wiresharkers,
>
> I have received a large PCAP file on NTFS filesystem of size 2,439,870,895
> bytes.
> Opening the file yields the following error message (after a long wating
> time):
> GLib-ERROR **: gmem.c:136: failed to allocate 4294967295 bytes aborting…
>
> To open the file, is it worth seeking for a 64-bit machine?
> Is largefile support planned in any 32-bit versions of Wireshark?
>
> cheers,
> Tamas
>
>
>
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