Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal Error

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 01:35:52 +0200
Constanza Peláez Quintero wrote:

> Hi.
>  
> I am using Ethereal to analyze the network traffic, I saved the
> capture file of 500MB but when i charge the file again for review i
> get a error message at the 56%. and the open operation is canceled.
>  
> The message is: GLib-error**:gmen.c:140 failed to allocate 65536
> bytes. aborting....
>  
> Are there any limit to open capture file?  Are the any way to resolve
> this issue?

Ethereal will crash if running out of memory, and you cannot do a lot
about it, except splitting the capture files into smaller pieces or buy
some more memory for your computer.

This is caused by the underlying libraries used and cannot easily be
solved...

Regards, ULFL