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From: "Robert Fulton" <robfult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:45:15 +0100
Title: Ethereal on Linux

Hi,

I recently installed ethereal on a set of Linux boxes, we are using them for packet capture on out development network. I set it running last night to test how long a continuous run we could achieve because people had asked if it would cope with 24 hours worth of capture! I spotted the file in /tmp that was being used to store the data but the area had 3.5 GB free and so I assumed it would. I started it at 11 am! I have come in this morning and found it has crashed with the following error :

GLib-ERROR **: could not allocate 8192 bytes
aborting...

[1]+  Aborted                 (core dumped) ethereal  (wd: ~)
(wd now: /tmp)

in /tmp I can see the data file :

[root@phl3y03h /tmp]# ls -l
total 267848
-rw-------    1 root     root     273981079 Jun  7 21:52 etherXXXXzNVOto

And I have the core file :

[root@phl3y03h /root]# ls -l
total 916772
-rw-------    1 root     root     937848832 Jun  7 21:52 core

Can anybody tell me / help me work out what went wrong.

Machine details :

P2 266
64MB ram
Redhat 7.0
ethereal 0.8.17-1.i386
eth0 - 3com 3c90x for X and telnet traffic
eth1 - D-Link de4x5 for traffic capture

Thanks for any help

Rob Fulton