Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Live capture stops suddenly

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 13, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Chris Henderson wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Stephen Fisher
> <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On the bottom of the screen, does it say that /tmp/ is where the
> > temporary capture file is being saved?
>
> Yes, it does.

Does the temporary capture file continue to get larger over time, even  
if the packet count stops increasing, or does it stay the same size?   
(Wait long enough for a lot more packets to arrive, so they get saved  
to the file.)