Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Memory leaks in Ethereal

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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:20:55 +0530

Hi Everyone,

 

I am using Ethereal with version 0.10.11-SVN-14962. I ran Ethereal to capture packets with the interface “VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter : \Device\NPF_{588609BD-341C-482C-AC1C-E10E0545CC63}”. After capturing around 7,500,000 packets Ethereal crashed because of low Virtual memory.

 

Is there memory leaks in this version of Ethereal? If yes, then are there patches available for this version or the newer versions have lesser memory leaks? How significant is the difference between memory leaks of version 0.10.11-SVN-14962 and newer version?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Regards,

Gaurav