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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5821] Reduce per-packet memory requirements

Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:15:15 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5821

--- Comment #4 from Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2011-04-13 05:15:15 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #0)
 > 686 calls for 22500800 bytes: thread_7fff70cf6ca0 |start | main | cf_read |
> wtap_read | libpcap_read | libpcap_read_rec_data | file_read | fill_out_buffer
> | g_malloc | malloc | malloc_zone_malloc 
> 
> might be the fast-seek data structures, but we might want to make sure of that.

$ 22500800/686
32800

Looks like fast-seek. 
Btw. Some implementation of random access compress 32 KB window.
I haven't got time to test if compressing (and later wasting CPU for
decompressing) is worth memory saved or no.

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