Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] regarding memory failure in wireshark

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

prashanth joshi wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> When i run the wireshark for some time to capture live traffic the 
> wireshark runs out of memory. Is it possible to configure wireshark so 
> as to allocate more memory for the buffers?
> Is there any tool that supports catpuring packets for more memory than 
> the  wireshark?

Wireshark will use all the memory available--basically until malloc() fails.

For more info, see:

http://wiki.wireshark.org/KnownBugs/OutOfMemory