Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Compiling with glib2/gtk+2 (not yet) (with attach)

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From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 21:01:24 +1000
> > (one such extension i could really use myself would be something that
would
> > tap all packets
> > at say the rpc layer to build a structure with statistics on numbert of
> > calls min max and average response time.
> > sort of nfsstat style statistics that ethereal could produce and display
in
> > a separate window and which would update in semi-realtime as one
captures
> > live)

I would really really like to have a low prio thread that could update stuff
in the background
without impacting ethereal, say once every 2-3 seconds.

Ethereal tends to get quite slow (trust me on this, I know) when you have to
printf this table to
stdout for every single packet you read or capture.