Sorry, just realized that input.file could be a bit ambiguous... that's the
file I'm opening in Ethereal
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Robertson [mailto:Chris.Robertson@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 4:45 PM
> To: 'ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [Ethereal-users] Large memory footprint
>
>
> A quick question, I'm loading faily large capture files (created with
> tcpdump -w <input.file>, between 100MB-400MB, up to millions
> packets) into
> Ethereal and I'm getting a memory footprint of 600MB to just
> under 1GB. Is
> this normal? Also, Ethereal is single threaded, correct?
> Ie. it's not
> going to touch my second CPU.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
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