Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Display filter as stop condition

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From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:29:10 -0800 (PST)
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 sford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> But I do have a problem.  When I DON'T provide a capture filter (to
> cut down the incoming rate), it does seem to run far behind and
> miss lots of packets.  (Even though the cpu is mostly idle and it's
> not taking all that much memory!)  Then when it exits, it thinks there
> were 0 dropped packets!  If the user mode code takes too long to process
> each packet, I thought it would detect overruns.
> 
> When I read in the captured file (without using ANY filters at all),
> it seems to take very long time, even though the cpu STAYS mostly idle.
> WHAT is going on???

Have you turned off IP address to name translation?

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com