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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Memory question

From: Boonie <newsboonie@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:10:08 +0100
2010/3/25 János Löbb <janos.lobb@xxxxxxxx>:
>
> Is there any setting I can change to be able to open the file and work
> with it ?  How folks are doing lengthier captures, like multiple hours ?

Try to use the "use multiple files" option You should limit the files
to 50 or 100 megs. That should do the trick.

If you want to do this for a really long period you should consider
using tshark to write the files.

Dave