Re: OutOfMemory

[Anthony Murabito <anthony () iol unh edu>]

Hi Roger,

The system monitor will only show you the amount of memory in use by 
programs, not what your OS is using as cache as well. If you add the 
system monitor to a taskbar, you can view both. I've seen it on my 
machine as well, if a lot is being used by cache, and has to be page 
file swapped out while a large capture is loading, wireshark will 
sometimes crash. (see attached pic)

Regards,

Anthony

On 04/22/2010 03:19 PM, Wynns, Roger [OXFORD] wrote:
> Gentlemen,
>
> I was trying to open a 200MB .pcap file into Wireshark(1.2.2) under
>
> Ubuntu(see System Monitor.png) and I got the OutOfMemory message.
>
> According to the System Monitor, I was not out of memory(see
>
> OutOfMemory.png).  I have read the Wiki page and it said that it would use
>
> all available memory/swap space.
>
> Is there some setting that I need to set to force it to use all memory
>
> and/or swap space?
>
> Any other reason that it is not using all the memory?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roger Wynns
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roger Wynns
>
>
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