Re: Wireshark runtime error in readin TCPDump trace

[Stephen Fisher <steve () stephen-fisher com>]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:21:49PM -0700, Alireza Attar wrote:

> I have tried both a Windows based machine and a linux machine to read 
> the file. However in both cases after about 19%-20% of data is read 
> the Wireshark crashes with runtime error message. Is this related to 
> the size of the trace I am reading, memory issue on my machine or an 
> error in the trace. Any feedback is appreciated.

You're probably just running out of memory.  I've loaded 46% of that 
file so far (752MB) and it's cosuming 3.5GB of RAM.  See this web page 
for more details: http://wiki.wireshark.org/KnownBugs/OutOfMemory

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