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Re: Memory consumption in tshark
From: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws () darkjames pl>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:47:33 +0200
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 06:17:13PM -0400, Evan Huus wrote:
As Anders says, this is because we have no way right now to selectively discard it: much of the data is stored in a way that we can only get rid of all of it, or none.
I'm not sure why we want to do selectvely discard, I'm fan of 'get rid of all of it'.
I'm sure there are some significant improvements we could make if somebody figures out how,
It's quite simple just call epan_free(), epan_new() after each packet (or every N-th packet, or when dissection throw OutOfMemory exception - ups it could be too late ;]) ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark, (continued)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Jakub Zawadzki (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Evan Huus (Aug 28)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Evan Huus (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Joerg Mayer (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Evan Huus (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Joerg Mayer (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Anders Broman (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Evan Huus (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Anders Broman (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Evan Huus (Aug 28)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Jakub Zawadzki (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Evan Huus (Aug 28)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Jakub Zawadzki (Aug 27)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Dario Lombardo (Aug 28)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Evan Huus (Aug 28)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Dario Lombardo (Aug 28)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Evan Huus (Aug 28)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Evan Huus (Aug 28)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Dario Lombardo (Aug 29)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Evan Huus (Aug 29)
- Re: Memory consumption in tshark Dario Lombardo (Aug 29)