On Jul 9, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Maverick wrote:
> I have huge pcap files in Gbs which I want to analyze using wireshark but wireshark is extremely slow and crashes while opening those files. I tried breaking those files into smaller files but thats not very good solution as I have to open up each file and sometime relationship between files gets lost.
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> Is there a decent way to handle huge files in wireshark .
For now, the only way is "use a 64-bit version of Wireshark, make sure you have enough disk space/swap space to back up a large virtual address space, and live with the slowness".
There may be changes in the future to reduce the memory requirements, but they're not trivial to make.
