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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5184] Out of memory problem - Wireshark files capturing

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 04:35:51 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5184

--- Comment #2 from Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2010-09-06 04:35:46 PDT ---
> If there is a problem with the memory, maybe just try to save some packets "in flight" on hard drive instead of memory ?

That's exactly what we do and have always done.

However, other things consume a significant mount of memory, including packet
reassembly and - to a lesser degree in 1.4 - column contents for the packet
display.  See the link that Anders gave.

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