Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] filtered out messages show up briefly during live capture

[Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm doing a lot of live capturing these days (quite unusual for me).
> I have a (customized) 1.8.2 build on Linux and I've been noticing that
> while doing a live capture with a display filter I can see the packet
> list "jitter" sometimes (scroll down like there are more packets and
> then scroll back up) and indeed sometimes I have caught the packet
> list showing me packets that should not pass the dfilter only to have
> them disappear again off the packet list a few hundred msec later.
>
> Anyone else ever noticed that or have any ideas about it?
>
> I'm in no position to track it down at the moment; at the very least
> hopefully this email will remind me about it later...
>
> Regards,
> -Jeff
>
> ps. this may be somewhat of an unfair test because my X connection to
> the GUI isn't the fastest so that may make the delays more
> perceptible.

I've never noticed anything like this before, but if I recall
correctly Jakub has been doing some work on more efficiently updating
the packet display - it's possible that he's already fixed this in
trunk?