Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark memory handling

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Håvar Aambø Fosstveit wrote:
> Hello!
>
> We are a student group from the university of Science and Engineering in 
> Norway, and are having a project on handling large data sets and specifically 
> Wiresharks issues with it. I have included part of our prestudy into the 
> problem as an attachment, and we are wondering if anybody has som immediate 
> thoughts regarding our plans for a sollution.

It's been a while, but my memory says that while memory-mapped files are 
great, *growing* memory mapped files was (significantly) less pleasant. 
 Since Wireshark's allocations tend to be incremental, how would you 
plan to deal with that?