Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Regarding Memory allocation

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

harshas wrote:
> If I open a capture file of say 20 MB it works fine and
> above that ie if the size > 20 MB ethreal will exit. So what might be the
> reasom,is it the SIZE of the capture file?

Not necessarily.  It might just be that the packets on which it's 
crashing have packets that trigger a bug in Ethereal.  That could 
correlate with the capture size, if your captures are being done on a 
network on which packets of that sort occasionally, but not frequently, 
appear - a 20MB capture might not have been long enough to have a very 
high chance of capturing one of those packets, but a larger one might.

We'd have to see a stack trace from the crash to determine the cause of 
the crash.