Re: Wireshark memory handling

[Erlend Hamberg <hamberg () stud ntnu no>]

On Monday 5. October 2009 20.46.03 Jeff Morriss wrote:
> 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?

As I just mentioned in the reply to Guy Harris, we plan on doing this step-
wise. Maybe allocate 100 MiB at a time. Maybe 200? :-)

It is also quite possible that Guy Harris' reply to this email is the way to 
go, i.e., growing a file and mmap'ing the new area.

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Erlend Hamberg
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