Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Running (T)Ethereal forever

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From: Ober Heim <ober@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 20:46:22 +0100 (BST)
We run a 24/7 tethereal setup, and find restarts every 10 minutes fix the 
memory growth problem.

One major issue is the use of conversations in many different dissectors 
to track request/replies. 
This could require some major rewrites to start dropping items off the 
list.

But none the less would be nice to have it handle long term streams in a 
better fashion. However it would be up to the dissector writers to do so.

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Pierre JUHEN wrote:

> I would like to run tethereal on a PC "forever".
> 
> I use it to capture on an ethereal interface, filter some packets, and them
> on the network through another interface.
> 
> However, tethereal consumes memory for each packet, and crashes when 
> there is no more
> memory...
> 
> Would it be possible to have an option where tethereal releases the 
> memory used by the capture,
> after either a  number of packets, or a certain amount of time.
> 
> This would be also useful for ethereal in graphical mode, but I guess 
> it's more difficult.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Pierre Juhen
> 
> 
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