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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 4115] Wireshark crashes while opening large trace files on

Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:40:16 -0800 (PST)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4115

--- Comment #8 from Jason J. W. Williams <jasonjwwilliams@xxxxxxxxx> 2010-01-26 09:40:16 PST ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> This just happened to me as well. OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) on a MacBook Pro
> w/ 4GB of RAM. Wireshark version was 1.2.2.
> 
> wireshark-bin(3254,0xa08d1500) malloc: *** mmap(size=16777216) failed (error
> code=12)
> *** error: can't allocate region
> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
> 
> ***MEMORY-ERROR***: wireshark-bin[3254]: GSlice: failed to allocate 4088 bytes
> (alignment: 4096): Cannot allocate memory

Upgrading to 1.3.2 fixes the problem. Pcap is ~200MB in size.

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