Re: Memory consumption in tshark

[Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws () darkjames pl>]

Hi,

> > From: wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Dario 
> > Lombardo
>
> > I've run this command on a 10G pcap file.
>
> > ./tshark -r traffic.all -Y "dns.qry.name.len > 50" -w longnames.pcap
>
> > Used memory grows continuously, up to over 3GB of ram. At this point my pc goes thrashing and I must kill tshark.
> > That's not what I expected. I expected the memory to grow up to a certain size, then stop, feeding the output file.
> > Any idea about what happens? Any suggestion on how to debug it?

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 02:40:07PM +0000, Anders Broman wrote:

> No it will not; as state and stuff accumulates memory grows until *shark runs out of memory your mileage on

Isn't it a bug? Do we need some special option for such case, or reusing
single pass tshark is good enough?
We should anyway do -2 pass default where we have a file (and not pipe).
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