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

From: Chris Henderson <henders254@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:00:59 +1100
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.)

It stays the same size after the capture stops.