Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Statistics generation: exponential instead of linear time?

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From: ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 22:56:32 +0000
Is it possible to run a profile on ethereal/tethereal when you
experience this? to see where the cpu is spent.

I have a suspicion that it is the GHashTables used by TCP but need
some hard data.



On 11/26/05, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a file with 158157 packets and I'm trying to generate
> conversation and end points statistics. However, it takes a very long
> time to do this.
> At first it's quite fast, but as it progresses it gets slower and
> slower. Is there some code with too much complexity in these
> algorithms?
>
> It's taking 10 minutes now on a K7 1200.
>