[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 1, 2003, at 1:50 PM, didier wrote:

> 3 things
> - there's a bug in reassembling code with lost frame.
> - an unfinished fix for reassemble.c

Does your patch address both of those?  Or are they the same problem?

> - with huge capture, by huge I mean capture where ethereal memory 
> usage is > physical memory, I've seen system load > 40%
>
> using
> mallopt (M_MMAP_MAX, 0);
> mallopt (M_TOP_PAD, 10*1024*1024);
> mallopt (M_TRIM_THRESHOLD, 20*1024*1024);
> help a lot, system < 10%

...on platforms that have "mallopt()" and those options for it.