Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] New experimental feature: GTK2 based packet list(svn rev 28892)

From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:35:32 -0600

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 10:13:54AM +0200, Anders Broman wrote:

> Great job! Looks quite good I think. 

Thanks!  I'm going to work on the coloring rules next.

> I played with it a bit and loading large files is quite slow but 
> removing the resorting for every row speeds it up to be faster than 
> the original code I think. A 61Mb trace New packet list with patch 
> ~11s, old WS (SVN Rev 27374) ~16s

Great.

> Memmory usage is much higher though 183 744Kb vs 252 388K. Should some 
> columns be stored as numbers instead of strings?

Probably.

> Index: packet_list_store.c
> ===================================================================
> --- packet_list_store.c (revision 28916)
> +++ packet_list_store.c (working copy)
> @@ -516,7 +516,7 @@
> 
>         gtk_tree_path_free(path);
> 
> -       packet_list_resort(packet_list);
> +       //packet_list_resort(packet_list);
>  }

This goes along the lines of my thinking that we could turn off sorting 
until a capture file is fully loaded.  We could also only turn on 
sorting if the user clicks on one of the column headings by using a 
number for sort_id to signify no sorting.


Steve