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I had this same problem, so I wrote a patch, which I will have to dig
up, that would change the output writing in tethereal to change to a
NON blocking mode. This prevented back log, and it simply would continue
sending data at the pipe without waiting. Some packets could obviously
be lost but it was not a problem.
On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 12:07:32 -0700 Pierre JUHEN <pierre.juhen@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>I am looking for the way to implement an option in tethereal, that
>would
>regularly sweep the memory, when
>tethereal write to a pipe.
>
>The option woud permit to sweep the memory use by packets that are
>"old"
>(more than x seconds, typically 300/600),
>such a way the dissectors have a big enough "backlog" to work, ant
>>
>ethereal would be able to run for a very long time,
>eventually forever ?
>
>I read the ring buffer code to find out how the memory is cleaned
>in
>that case.
>
>Question :
>
> Where is the memory useb by the packets ?
> on the capture side ?
> on the wtap_dump side ?
>
> Behing which varaible / pointer ?
>
>Thank you.
>
>Regards,
>
>Pierre Juhen
>
>
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