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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 2131] Allow in-memory circular capturing

Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 14:59:46 -0800 (PST)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2131

LEGO <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from LEGO <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx> 2010-03-04 14:59:39 PST ---
You could setup a ramdisk and use that for the ring. There's an overhead but it
is way faster than a disk.

The issue you'll face is that wireshark's memory management (memory usage keeps
growing until it crashes) makes it a bad long-running sniffer especially if
you're dealing with high packet rates.

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