Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Reduce memory consumption by re-reading data from file for reassembled packets.

[Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 01:51:41PM +0100, Anders Broman wrote:

> If a prototype is made and yields good results we could consider 
> changing the handling of compressed files to uncompress them to a temp 
> file before reading them in.

I've never found the ability to read compressed capture files on the fly 
to be very useful, so I wouldn't want to hold up an important feature 
just because it breaks that.  Uncompressing the file in a temp directory 
should be fine.