Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Preparing for 1.0

[LEGO <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/28/06, Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> John McDermott wrote:
> > One had a
> > problem recently with the number of open files required, for example.
> > He said he had to up his quota from 128 (he set it at 512) in order to
> > get Ethereal to start.
>
> To *start*?  I.e., even without *doing* anything in Ethereal - not
> opening a file, not starting a capture, not anything - he had to raise
> his file descriptor limit to get it just to pop up the main window?
>
> If it requires more than 128 file descriptors, that's a bug somewhere,
> whether it's in Ethereal or some library Ethereal's using.
>
> I set my limit down to 128 on OS X and Ethereal started up fine.

It might have been the radius dictionary files that weren't closed
(It's already fixed). BTW thta's about 30 files not 128.

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