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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Performance with large capture files

From: "Maynard, Chris" <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 16:24:30 +0000

Tracewrangler[1] is a very good free tool for slicing and dicing packet flows, allowing one to work with smaller capture files when analyzing particular flows.  The Wireshark Tools wiki page[2] lists Tracewrangler along with many other tools that may be of interest to you.

 

I also use Riverbed’s Packet Analyzer product[3] (not free) for analyzing large files and being able to drill down to a smaller subset of packets that can then be loaded into Wireshark for deeper analysis.  You might want to test drive it with a free trial to see if it meets your needs.  There are other analyzers besides Wireshark that you could try as well (such as Microsoft’s Message Analyzer[4]), but I don’t know how well any others would work, so you might have to conduct your own benchmarks.

 

- Chris

[1]: https://www.tracewrangler.com/

[2]: https://wiki.wireshark.org/Tools

[3]: https://www.riverbed.com/products/steelcentral/steelcentral-packet-analyzer-personal-edition.html

[4]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44226

 

 

From: Wireshark-users [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Deny IP Any Any
Sent: Saturday, September 8, 2018 1:02 PM
To: wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Wireshark-users] Performance with large capture files

 

Anyone have tips on things to make working with large (3GB filesize, 4.5m packets) capture files better? CPU/Memory/Disk are not maxed in resmon but it takes fooooorever to do many common tasks in the UI. Using current version Wireshark on a modern gaming Win10 computer.

 

I know smaller files are easier but sometimes you don't have an option.

 

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