Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Conversation/Endpoint list performance patch

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Ian Schorr wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Attached are a couple of simple patches that should improve 
> performance of the Conversation List and Endpoint List features 
> tremendously.
>
> In my testing I saw about 2x to over 500x improvement.
>
> We were able to get away with the lists the way they were in GTK-1.x, 
> but in GTK-2.x the features are nearly unusable with captures 
> containing moderately large numbers of conversations/hosts.   These 
> patches should improve performance in both, though.
>
> There's quite a bit more optimization that can be done, I just figured 
> I'd hit the lowest-hanging fruit first.
Well, that sound reasonable.

I've checked in your changes.

However, when I'm using statistics for longer capture files, Ethereal 
crashes reproducible on my Win32 machine.

Regards, ULFL