Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Memory leak of ethereal-0.8.12

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <alvestrand@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is it a known bug that Ethereal 0.8.12 leaks memory?

I discovered it while wondering why Ethereal was so slow after capturing 
packets continuously for 3 days on a 486/66 with 40 Mbytes of 
memory.....call me weird, but I like watching.
The program size was 40 Mbytes, resident 17 Mbytes; just after start, the 
program size was 5.9 Mbytes (as reported by ps -aux).

- OS: Linux 2.2.5 with SMP support, from Red Hat 6.0 distribution
- GTK: 1.2.6
- Ethereal 0.8.12 with GTK+ 1.2.6, with libpcap 0.4, without libz, without SNMP
- Command used: Start Ethereal with a remote display to another X server,
display options "Time of day", select "automatic scrolling in live capture" 
and "enable name resolution". Capture length 65535.
Start capture with a "not host <X server>" packet filter.
- Leave to stew for 3 days on a home LAN (low traffic).

If this is a well known problem, I'll wait for the next version of 
something... otherwise, I'm happy to try out patches and let the thing run.

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