Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5069] Massive memory leak with 1.2.10.
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5069
--- Comment #2 from Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx> 2010-08-03 12:35:16 EDT ---
> Start up Wireshark again and notice Windows Task Manager Mem Usage reports
> ~84MB before any file is loaded. Load the 100MB file and watch memory usage
> climb to about 419MB. Close file expecting memory usage to drop back to 84MB
> again, but it only drops to ~375MB. Load same file again and memory usage
> climbs to ~555MB. Close file and memory usage only drops to 509MB. Load
> again, usage climbs to 690MB. Close and it only drops to 645MB. You get the
> idea.
>
As noted memory usage won't particularly drop when a capture file is closed.
However, if memory usage increases significantly each time a file is reloaded
(^R) then that should be looked at.
> I can post the capture file if needed.
Please (Thanks).
A number of these types of memory leaks have been fixed in the past.
See, for example, Bug #2375
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