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

[Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 11:50:58AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > I like Jeff Moriss idea about mmap()ed files.
> 
> ...which consume address space, so, again, if the problem is running out of address space,
> rather than running out of main memory+backing store for anonymous pages, that won't help.

Ok, but what is MAIN problem? That wireshark run out of address space or oom?

Still reimplementing reasamble.c (list structure) with single file (linear) is
imho hard thing to do.