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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 8022] core dumped when the file is closed

Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:50:51 +0000

Comment # 13 on bug 8022 from
(In reply to comment #11)
> (In reply to comment #10)
> > I also saw that only large capture files (i.e. over 1 Gigabyte) cause this
> > type of crash.
> 
> More like "over 1 megapacket" (well, really "mibipacket", but we won't go
> down *that* rathole :-)) - what matters is the depth of the radix tree; it
> could be > 1048576 60-byte packets, which would be about an 80-megabyte pcap
> file.

cristian: got it. what made the capture large (bytewise) were the 1K sctp data
chunks.

anyway, my impression is that there is some big memory leak when it comes (at
least) to large sctp captures. still digging though.


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