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Re: Reduce memory consumption by re-reading data from file for reassembled packets.


From: Stephen Fisher <steve () stephen-fisher com>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 14:52:38 -0600

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 01:51:41PM +0100, Anders Broman wrote:

If a prototype is made and yields good results we could consider 
changing the handling of compressed files to uncompress them to a temp 
file before reading them in.

I've never found the ability to read compressed capture files on the fly 
to be very useful, so I wouldn't want to hold up an important feature 
just because it breaks that.  Uncompressing the file in a temp directory 
should be fine.

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