Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] Re: First impressions on Sun testbed

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 18:14:11 -0700 (PDT)
> (grin) It kind of flakes out when I dump that many packets on the
> program.  I've tried it on a Sun Ultra2 with 2x166mhz CPU's, 512MB
> RAM, and an hme interface, as well as a Sun Ultra ES/3500 with 6x400mhz
> CPU's, and 3GB RAM.  It seems remarkably compute efficient during the
> packet acquisition stage, but the analysis stage seems to bomb out a
> lot.

"Bomb[s] out" as in "dumps core"?