Hello Guy,
I have no MAPI traffic. Also another question on my laptop I have a certain amount of RAM and Swap space. When this space is full up will Ethereal automatically crash or should it slow down and wait for memory to become available?
Thanks,
David
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-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris [mailto:gharris@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 8:34 PM
To: David Fay (LMI)
Cc: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx; 'david.fay@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Problem with Linux crashing
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:45:17AM +0200, David Fay (LMI) wrote:
> I have a problem with Linux crashing. The error message I got was:
> GLib-Error **: could not allocate -574747417 bytes
> aborting...
> Aborted
> What is the minimum spec that Ethereal should be ran on? Might it be
> something to do with swap space.
Possibly - if so, you'd need to remove 574747417 bytes of swap space
from your machine, as the machine is unable to allocate -574747417
bytes. :-)
Actually, it's the result of a bug somewhere; does your network have
MAPI (Exchange) traffic on it? There appears to be a problem with
dissecting MAPI traffic that could cause a crash of that sort.
